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Title Durkheim in dialogue : a centenary celebration of the elementary forms of religious life / edited by Sondra L. Hausner
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations
Series Methodology & History in Anthropology
Methodology and history in anthropology.
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
Summary One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim's 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. English.
SUBJECT Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (Durkheim, Émile) fast
Subject Religion.
Totemism.
Cults.
Rites and ceremonies.
religion (discipline)
totemism.
rites.
ceremonies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Cults
Religion
Rites and ceremonies
Totemism
Form Electronic book
Author Hausner, Sondra L.
ISBN 9781461952572
1461952573
9781782380221
1782380221