Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today

"Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today" brings together ten new essays in which noted sociologists, psychologists, phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of religion grapple with the questions Durkheim raised and the solutions he proposed for the academic study of religion.

About the author

Thomas A. Idinopulos Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Professor of Religious Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His most recent books include What is Religion? Origins, Definitions & Explanations (1999) and Land Weathered by Miracles: Historic Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti (1998).
Brian C. Wilson Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His most recent publications include What is Religion? Origins, Definitions, & Explanations (1999) and Christianity (1999).

Product details

• Assisted by: Idinopulos (Editor), Brian C Wilson (Editor), Brian C. Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2001
• EAN: 9789004123397
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12339-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 245 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Numen Book
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works