0415162866.Routledge.On.Durkheims.Elementary.Forms.of.Religious.Life.Mar.1998.pdf

ON DURKHEIM’S ELEMENTARY

FORMS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE

This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim’s master-piece,

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. A classic of sociology and the study of

religion, and one of his most important and influential works, The Elementary

Forms is currently enjoying a renaissance in other, related disciplines.

This collection represents the work of the most important, international

Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology.

From these diverse viewpoints, the contributors examine Durkheim’s

perspective on the role of religion and social life. The essays focus on key

issues, for example, the method Durkheim adopted in his study; the role of

ritual and belief in society; the nature of contemporary religion, as well as on

debates on the notion of the soul and contemporary collective civic rituals. This

collection fills a major gap in studies on Durkheim, and will be a vital resource

for students and researchers in anthropology, sociology and philosophy and

religious studies.

The contributors N.J.Allen, Werner Gephart, Terry F.Godlove, Jr., Robert

Alun Jones, Dominique Merllié, Howard-Morphy, Dénes Némedi, Giovanni

Paoletti, William Ramp, Malcolm Ruel, Warren Schmaus, Sue Stedman Jones,

Ivan Strenski, Kenneth Thompson, W.Watts Miller.

The editors N.J.Allen is Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia at

Oxford University and specialist in the work of Marcel Mauss. W.S.F.Pickering

helped to found the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in the Institute of

Social and Cultural Anthropology in Oxford in 1991. He has written on

Durkheim’s sociology of religion and, more recently, was joint editor of

Debating Durkheim, published by Routledge. W.Watts Miller is editor of Durkheim

Studies/Études durkheimiennes, and the author of Durkheim, Morals and Modernity

(1996). He lectures in the Departments of Sociology and Philosophy at the

University of Bristol.

ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND

POLITICAL THOUGHT

1. HAYEK AND AFTER

Hayekian liberalism as a research programme

Jeremy Shearmur

2. CONFLICTS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

Edited by Anton van Harskamp

3. POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ANDRÉ GORZ

Adrian Little

4. CORRUPTION, CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY

John Girling

5. FREEDOM AND CULTURE IN WESTERN SOCIETY

Hans Blokland

6. FREEDOM IN ECONOMICS

New perspectives in normative analysis

Edited by Jean-François Laslier, Marc Fleurbaey, Nicolas Gravel and Alain Trannoy

7. AGAINST POLITICS

On government, and order

Anthony de Jasay

8. MAX WEBER AND MICHEL FOUCAULT

Parallel life works

Arpad Szakolczai

9. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY

AND HUMAN RIGHTS

G.B.Madison

10. ON DURKHEIM’S ELEMENTARY FORMS OF

RELIGIOUS LIFE

Edited by N.J.Allen, W.S.F.Pickering and W.Watts Miller

11. ILLNESS AS A WORK OF THOUGHT

A Foucauldian perspective of psychosomatics

Monica Greco

ON DURKHEIM’S

ELEMENTARY FORMS

OF RELIGIOUS LIFE

Edited by N.J.Allen,

W.S.F.Pickering and W.Watts Miller

Published in conjunction with the British Centre

for Durkheimian Studies

London and New York

First published 1998

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

W.Watts Miller

or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing

from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

On Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life/edited by

N.J.Allen, W.S.F Pickering and W.Watts Miller.

p. cm. —(Routledge studies in social and political thought)

(hc: alk. paper)

1. Durkheim, Emile, 1858–1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie

religieuse. 2. Religion. 3. Totemism. I. Allen, N.J. II. Pickering,

W.S.F. III. Watts Miller, William, 1944–

IV. Series

GN470.D83069 1998

306.6–dc21 97–29595

CIP

ISBN 0-415-16286-6 (Print Edition)

ISBN 0-203-02190-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-20825-0 (Glassbook Format)

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