The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Informationen zum 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). Klappentext 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 Elementary Forms has been applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians, and continues to speak to new generations about the intriguing origin and nature of religion and society. This new, lightly abridged edition provides an excellent introduction to Durkheim's ideas. Zusammenfassung In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim investigated the enduring source of human social identity and fellowship by studying the simplest form of documented religion, totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. His book about the origin and nature of religion and society continues to enthrall sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians.

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• Authors: ^D'Emile Durkheim, Emile Durkheim, Émile Durkheim
• Assisted by: Mark S. Cladis (Editor), Mark S. (Associate Professor and Chair Cladis (Editor), Cladis Mark S. (Editor), Carol Cosman (Translation), Cosman Carol (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9780199540129
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954012-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; Oxford Paperbacks; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, Society and culture: general