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Durkheim's sociology of religion : themes and theories /
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 su...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
James Clarke & Co.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover ; Title Page; Durkheim's Sociology of Religion ; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; References, notation, translations; Abbreviations; Introductory remarks; PART ONE: Historical Perspectives ; Chapter One: Durkheim's religious quest. I: Adolescent changes, family life and personal beliefs ; (1) Introduction; (2) Boyhood, youth and the rejection of Judaism ; (3) Psychoanalytic factors ; (4) The significance of Jewishness ; (5) Asceticism and family life ; (6) His religious quest ; (7) Patriotism, politics and war ; (8) The epilogue
- Chapter Two: Durkheim's religious quest. II: In professional achievement (1) To greater things ; (2) Disciples and the journal ; (3) Influence in the realm of education ; (4) 'More a priest than a scholar'? ; Chapter Three: The development of Durkheim's thought on religion. I: The early period ; (1) The search for lines of demarcation ; (2) Publications and substantive issues ; (3) The beginnings and early influences ; (4) Characteristics of the period ; Chapter Four: The development of Durkheim'sthought on religion. II: The middle period ; (1) The 'revelation'
- (2) Durkheim's reading of Robertson Smith (3) Feverish activity ; (4) Characteristics ; Chapter Five: The development of Durkheim'sthought on religion. III: The final formulation ; (1) The work continues with lectures, articles and thebook ; (2) The 1906-7 lectures: 'La Religion: les origines'; (3) Les Formes elementaires; (4) Its reception; (5) Continued glory and demise; PART TWO: Taking up positions; Chapter Six: Procedures and assumptions; (1) The religious beliefs of the sociologist; (2) The careful experiment; (3) The issue of totemism
- Chapter Seven: The sacred and the profane: the ground of religion. I: Defining the two poles (1) Introduction; (2) Durkheim's development of the notion of the sacred; (3) Not the sacred but the sacred-profane; (4) Basic meanings ; Latin roots; The French sacre and profane; English meanings; Durkheim's meanings; (5) The sacred's own binary system; (6) The origin and constitution of the sacred: the stamp of society; (7) The profane; (8) Trying to deal with the profane; Chapter 8: The sacred and the profane: the ground of religion. II: The relations between them: further analysis
- (1) The relation between the sacred and the profane(2) The duality accepted and attacked; (3) Further characteristics of the sacred; (4) Conclusion; Chapter 9: Commitment to a definition ; (1) Early and late attempts; (2) Phenomena: wholes, parts and facts; (3) Emphasis on coercive force: the attempt to be scientific; (4) Individual religious phenomena: their exclusion; (5) Change in definition and the consequences; (6) Reasons for the change; (7) The definition: consequences for the discipline; Chapter 10: The problem of the social and the·individual in religion