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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Religion; Totemism; Cults; Rites and ceremonies
• Altri autori: HausnerSondra L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Durkheim in dialogue
• ISBN: 1-4619-5257-3; 1-78238-022-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790858803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology