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Author Nielsen, Donald A., 1943-

Title Three faces of God : society, religion, and the categories of totality in the philosophy of Emile Durkheim / Donald A. Nielsen
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages)
Series SUNY series in religion, culture, and society
SUNY series in religion, culture, and society.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Durkheim's project: A claim -- 2. Durkheim's intellectual development and the Durkheimian theoretical program -- 3. Durkheim's concept of totality and the philosophical tradition: Selected predecessors -- 4. Durkheim's early writings and the dissertation on Montesquieu -- 5. The first approach to totality: Wholes, parts, and the transformation of social substance in the Divisionof Labor in Society -- 6. The problem of totality in Durkheim's transitional period -- 7. Between revelation and realization: The developing problem of totality in Durkheim from 1898 to 1912 -- 8. The problem of totality in the early Durkeim school: The work of Durkheim, Mauss, Hubert, Hertz, and Bougle -- 9. The second approach to totality: Society, religion, and the categories in the Elementary Forms of Religious Life -- 10. The problem of totality in Durkheim's last writings -- 11. Sociological monism and the encounter between tradition and modernity -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index
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Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
SUBJECT Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 fast
Subject Sociology -- Philosophy.
Religion and sociology.
Whole and parts (Philosophy)
sociology of religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Religion and sociology
Sociology -- Philosophy
Whole and parts (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585060150
9780585060156