| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 225 pages). |
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| Series |
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 10 |
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Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 10.
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| Note |
"Published in conjunction with the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction of ethnography / Howard Morphy -- Did Lucien Levy-Bruhl answer the objections made in Les Formes elementaires? / Dominique Merllie -- Religion and science in The Elementary Forms / Robert Alun Jones -- The concept of belief in The Elementary Forms / Sue Stedman Jones -- Durkheim, Kant, the immortal soul and God / W. Watts Miller -- The cult of images: reading chapter VII, book II, of The Elementary Forms. / Giovanni Paoletti -- Durkheim and sacred identity / Kenneth Thompson -- Rescuing Durkheim's 'rites' from the symbolizing anthropologists / Malcolm Ruel -- Durkheim's bourgeois theory of sacrifice / Ivan Strenski -- Memory and the sacred: the cult of anniversaries and commemorative rituals in the light of The Elementary Forms / Werner Gephart -- Effervescence, differentiation and representation in the elementary forms / William Ramp -- Effervescence and the origins of human society / N.J. Allen -- Change, innovation, creation: Durkheim's ambivalence / Denes Nemedi -- Durkheim on the causes and functions of the categories / Warren Schmaus -- Durkheim and a priori truth: conformity as a philosophical problem / Terry F. Godlove, Jr. |
| Summary |
This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and includes work by the most important international Durkheim scholars. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.
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Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (Durkheim, Émile) (OCoLC)fst01386530
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Religion.
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Totemism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Totemism. (OCoLC)fst01153059
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| Added Author |
Allen, N. J., editor.
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Pickering, W. S. F., editor.
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Watts Miller, William, 1944- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: On Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 (DLC) 97029595 |
| ISBN |
0585451702 (electronic book) |
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9780585451701 (electronic book) |
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9780415162869 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0415162866 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780203021903 |
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0203021908 |
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