On Durkheim S Elementary Forms Of Religious Life

Author : N.J. Allen,W.S.F. Pickering,W. Watts Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134715015

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On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life by N.J. Allen,W.S.F. Pickering,W. Watts Miller Pdf

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.

Author : N.J. Allen,W.S.F. Pickering,W. Watts Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134715022

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On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life by N.J. Allen,W.S.F. Pickering,W. Watts Miller Pdf

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.

Author : Émile Durkheim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192637994

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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Émile Durkheim Pdf

'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. Aboriginal religion was an avenue 'to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity'. The need and capacity of men and women to relate socially lies at the heart of Durkheim's exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe. The Elementary Forms has been applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians, and continues to speak to new generations about the origin and nature of religion and society. This new, lightly abridged edition provides an excellent introduction to Durkheim's ideas. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Émile Durkheim
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547062929

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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim Pdf

"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. The author, the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, attributes the development of religion to the emotional security attained through communal living. He drives his conclusions from the study of totemic societies in Australia, which led him to a conclusion that the animal or plant that each clan worshipped as a sacred power was, in fact, that society itself.

Author : Emile Durkheim
Publisher : Vani Prakashan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789352290154

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The Elementary Forms of The Religious Life by Emile Durkheim Pdf

Author : Emile Durkheim
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498092136

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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Emile Durkheim Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.

Author : Emile Durkheim
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780227902547

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Durkheim on Religion by Emile Durkheim Pdf

The famous French sociologist Emile Durkheim is universally recognised as one of the founding fathers of sociology as an academic discipline. He wrote on the division of labour, methodology, suicide and education, but his most prolific and influential works were his writings on religion, which culminated in his controversial book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Although his influence continued long after his death in 1917, this is the first book to provide a detailed look at the whole of his work in the field of religion. Durkheim on Religion is a selection of readings from Durkheim's writings on religion, presented in order of original publication, ranging from early reviews to articles and extracts from his books. Also included are detailed bibliographies and abstracts together with contributions by such writers as Van Gennep, Goldenweiser and Stanner. This book will be invaluable to those studying sociology and anthropology, but will also be of interest to those studying the history or philosophy of religion, as well as to anyone with an interest in Durkheim.

Author : Émile Durkheim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536974609

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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim Pdf

David �mile Durkheim's classic analysis of religion offers a reasoned and sustained examination of faith, its origins and its nature, to the reader. First appearing to the public in 1912, the poignant nature of the text and its incisive examination of religion and its pivotal nature in society resulted in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life becoming a classic of sociology. Durkheim's researches were lengthy and thorough, ranging across the examination of tribal groupings in the Americas and Australia. For his part, Durkheim viewed religion as a generally positive thing for its promotion of community, social unity and friendships within a social structure. His personal preoccupation with societal trends, whereby science and technology were supplanting religion as a driving force in most Western societies, is expressed within this text which seeks to explore the value in the rituals and practices peculiar to religions. The book begins by reaching for a definition of religion and the phenomena which connote religious faith. The various tenets which constitute a faith are examined in turn, with examples given. Later in the text, consideration is given to the foremost practices; Durkheim continually refers to the 'primitive cult', and posits that human veneration of objects and phenomena leads to totemism, which in turn forms the founding of a sophisticated belief system. The author consistently attempts to discover common strains which religions possess, while purposely putting the supernatural and divine to one side for the sake of better focusing on the traits which comprise faith within small communities and in wider society. As a result of Durkheim's rigorous analysis, this text remains relevant and valuable for students and practitioners of sociology and psychology to this day. This edition of the text contains the original and highly regarded translation to English by Joseph Ward Swain.

Author : Anne Warfield Rawls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780511079146

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Epistemology and Practice by Anne Warfield Rawls Pdf

In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations. By privileging social practice over beliefs and ideas, it avoids the dilemmas inherent in philosophical approaches to knowledge and morality that are based on individualism and the tendency to privilege beliefs and ideas over practices, both tendencies that dominate western thought. Based on detailed textual analysis of the primary text, this book will be an important and original contribution to contemporary debates on social theory and philosophy.

Author : Sondra L. Hausner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782380221

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Durkheim in Dialogue by Sondra L. Hausner Pdf

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 which Durkheim1s work on religion remains relevant to our thinking about culture.

Author : Émile Durkheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Cults
ISBN : CORNELL:31924100477144

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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : OCLC:468450838

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On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Durkheim Emile
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318048591

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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Durkheim Emile Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : WSF Pickering
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227902554

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Durkheim's Sociology of Religion by WSF Pickering Pdf

Religion is central to Durkheim's theory of society, and his work laid most of the foundations of the sociology of religion. Daring and brilliant though his analysis was, its bold claims and questionable premises has made it the subject of ongoing academic debate. Durkheim's work on the subject reached a peak with the publication in 1912 of what turned out to be a classic in its field, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. No other book has explained Durkheim's views on religion using thewhole corpus of his writings. Dr Pickering shows how Durkheim's position developed and explains the themes and theories that run through Durkheim's work. This includes Durkheim's attitude towards secularisation and Christian churches, as well as hisnotion of the contemporary cult of the individual.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Philip Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521806720

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The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Philip Smith Pdf

An authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays redefining the relevance of Durkheim to the human sciences in the twenty-first century.