Durkheim in dialogue : a centenary celebration of the elementary forms of religious life / edited by Sondra L. Hausner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hausner, Sondra L.

Series:

Methodology & History in Anthropology

Methodology and history in anthropology

Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Totemism.

Cults.

Rites and ceremonies.

Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse--English.

Durkheim, Émile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim1s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple cases, probing its resilience, wondering where it might be tweaked, and asking which aspects have best stood the test of time. A dialogue between theory and ethnography, this book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in whi

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Durkheim in Disciplinary Dialogue; Part I - Commencement; Chapter 1 - The Notion of Soul and Science Positive: A Retrieval of Durkheim's Method; Part II - Social Forms; Chapter 2 - Return to Durkheim: Civil Religion and the Moral Reconstruction of China; Chapter 3 - Elementary Forms of War: Performative Aspects of Youth Militia in Sierra Leone; Chapter 4 - Elementary Forms versus Psychology in Contemporary Cinema; Part III - Collective Minds; Chapter 5 - Durkheim's Sacred/Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of It?

Chapter 6 - Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological RetrospectiveChapter 7 - Durkheim, Anthropology and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Élémentaires de la Vie Religieuse; Part IV - Effervescence; Chapter 8 - Is Individual to Collective as Freud Is to Durkheim?; Chapter 9 - Collective Representations, Discourse of Power and Personal Agency: Three Incommensurate Histories of a Collaborator's Rebellion in the Colonial Sudan; Chapter 10 - Actants Amassing (AA): Beyond Collective Effervescence and the Social; Part V - Fin

Chapter 11 - The Creation and Problematic Achievement of Les Formes ÉlémentairesContributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2013).

ISBN:

9781461952572

1461952573

9781782380221

1782380221

OCLC:

863824801