1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202232803316

Titolo

On Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life / / edited by N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering and W. Watts Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-71502-1

1-280-33336-7

0-585-45170-2

0-203-02190-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in social and political thought

Altri autori (Persone)

AllenN. J

PickeringW. S. F

Watts MillerWilliam <1944->

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Religion

Totemism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in conjunction with the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-215) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, and the nature of contemporary religion. The contributors also explore cutting-edge debates about the notion of the soul and collective rituals.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785407703321

Autore

Hill Jason D. <1965->

Titolo

Becoming a cosmopolitan [[electronic resource] ] : what it means to be a human being in the new millennium / / Jason D. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000

ISBN

1-282-92272-6

9786612922725

1-4422-1055-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Self (Philosophy)

Ethics

Internationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 01. CREATING THE SELF: THE SELF IN MORAL BECOMING; Chapter 02. THE EXISTENTIALIST SELF: RADICALLY FREE AND REBELLIOUS; Chapter 03. MORAL BECOMING, MORAL MASKING, AND THE NARRATIVITY OF THE SELF: NEGOTIATING THE COSMOPOLITAN TERRAIN; Chapter 04. FORGETTING WHERE WE CAME FROM: THE MORAL IMPERATIVE OF EVERY COSMOPOLITAN; Chapter 05. RADICAL AND MODERATE: MORAL



COSMOPOLITANISM; Chapter 06. LIBERALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM, COMMUNITARIANISM: FRIENDS OR ADVERSARIES?; EPILOGUE: COMING OUT AS A MORAL COSMOPOLITAN

APPENDIX: HISTORICAL PICTURES OF COSMOPOLITANISMNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary to forget aspects of one's racial and ethnic socialization. The idea of forgetting where one came from demands that morally recreated persons disown parts or even all of their cultures if these cultures are oppressive or denigrate human life. Hill draws on existentialism, developmental psychology, and his own experiences as a Caribbean immigrant to the United States to present a phil