On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

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N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller
Routledge, 2012 M10 12 - 238 páginas
This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It represents the work of the most important international Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The essays focus on key topics including:
* the method Durkheim adopted in his study
* the role of ritual and belief in society
* the nature of contemporary religion
The contributors also explore cutting-edge debates about the notion of the soul and collective rituals.
 

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Introduction
1
the theoretical construction of ethnography
13
2 Did Lucien LèvyBruhl answer the objections made in Les Formes elementaires?
29
3 Religion and science in The Elementary Forms
39
4 The concept of belief in The Elementary Forms
53
5 Durkheim Kant the immortal soul and God
66
reading chapter VII book II of The Elementary Forms
78
7 Durkheim and sacred identity
92
the cult of anniversaries and commemorative rituals in the light of The Elementary Forms
127
11 Effervescence differentiation and representation in The Elementary Forms
136
12 Effervescence and the origins of human society
149
Durkheims ambivalence
162
14 Durkheim on the causes and functions of the categories
176
conformity as a philosophical problem
189
Bibliography
203
Author index
216

8 Rescuing Durkheims rites from the symbolizing anthropologists
105
9 Durkheims bourgeois theory of sacrifice
116

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