Émile Durkheim

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

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In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. For Durkheim, studying Aboriginal religion was a way 'to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity'. The need and capacity of men and women to relate to one another socially lies at the heart of Durkheim's exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe. The Elementa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cosman, Carol (Übers.) / Cladis, Mark S. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-954012-9
EAN: 9780199540129
Produktnummer: 3456818
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Masse: H19.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 288 g
Abbildungen: map
Gewicht: 288

Über den Autor

Carol Cosman has translated works by Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Balzac and Yasmina RezaMark Cladis is the author of A Communitarian Defense of Liberalim: Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory (Stanford, 1992) and editor of Durkheim and Foucault: Perspectives on Education and Punishment (1999).