Durkheim in Dialogue

A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-021-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hausner, Sondra L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction: Durkheim in Disciplinary Dialogue

Sondra L. Hausner

Chapter 1. The Notion of Soul and Science Positive: A Retrieval of Durkheim’s Method

Karen E. Fields

PART I: SOCIAL FORMS

Chapter 2. Return to Durkheim: Civil Religion and the Moral Reconstruction of China

Zhe Ji

Chapter 3. Elementary Forms of War: Performative Aspects of Youth Militia in Sierra Leone

Paul Richards

Chapter 4. Elementary Forms vs. Psychology in Contemporary Cinema

Louise Child

PART II: COLLECTIVE MINDS

Chapter 5. Durkheim’s Sacred-Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of It?

N.J. Allen

Chapter 6. Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological Retrospective

Clive Gamble

Chapter 7. Durkheim, Anthropology, and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Élémentaires de la vie Religieuse

Susan Stedman Jones

PART III: EFFERVESCENCE

Chapter 8. Is Individual to Collective as Freud is to Durkheim?

Sondra L. Hausner

Chapter 9. Collective Representations, Discourses of Power, and Personal Agency: Three Incommensurate Histories of a Collaborator’s Rebellion in the Colonial Sudan

Gerd Baumann

Chapter 10. Actants Amassing (AA): Beyond Collective Effervescence and the Social

Adam Yuet Chau

FIN

Chapter 11. The Creation and Problematic Achievement of Les Formes Élémentaires

W. Watts Miller

Über Autor(innen)

Hausner, Sondra L.
Sondra L. Hausner is Oxford¹s first University Lecturer in the Study of Religion. An anthropologist by training, she teaches social and cultural theories of religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Her ethnographic work focuses on Himalayan and South Asian religions and the social dynamics of ritual. She won the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences from the American Institute of Indian Studies for her Durkheim-inspired monograph, Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas (Indiana University Press, 2007).