ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE NEW TRANSLATION

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• ISBN13: 9780029079362
• ISBN10: 0029079365
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: FP

Summary

"Karen Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students. In addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction. The publication of this translation is an occasion for general celebration, for a veritable 'collective effervescence.' -- Robert N. Bellah "Co-author of "Habits of the Heart," and editor of "Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society" "This superb new translation finally allows non-French speaking American readers fully to appreciate Durkheim's genius. It is a labor of love for which all scholars must be grateful." --Lewis A. Coser

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Translator's Introduction: Religion as an Eminently Social Thing	xvii
INTRODUCTION
Subject of the Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge	1	(20)
BOOK ONE: PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS
Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion	21	(24)
The Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion: Animism	45	(23)
The Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion (Continuation): Naturism	68	(16)
Totemism as Elementary Religion: Review of the Question. Method of Treating It	84	(15)
BOOK TWO: THE ELEMENTARY BELIEFS
The Principal Totemic Beliefs: The Totem as Name and as Emblem	99	(28)
The Principal Totemic Beliefs (Continued): The Totemic Animal and Man	127	(14)
The Principal Totemic Beliefs (Continued): The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Kind	141	(17)
The Principal Totemic Beliefs (End): The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem	158	(11)
Origins of These Beliefs Critical Examination of the Theories	169	(21)
Origins of These Beliefs (Continued): The Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force	190	(17)
Origins of These Beliefs (Conclusion): Origin of the Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana	207	(69)
The Notion of Soul
The Notion of Spirits and Gods	276	(27)
BOOK III: THE PRINCIPAL MODES OF RITUAL CONDUCT
The Negative Cult and Its Functions: The Ascetic Rites	303	(27)
The Positive Cult: The Elements of the Sacrifice	330	(25)
The Positive Cult (Continuation): Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality	355	(19)
The Positive Cult (Continuation): Representative or Commemorative Rites	374	(18)
The Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred	392	(57)
CONCLUSION
Index	449