Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 92
• Author: Idinopulos; Brian C. Wilson (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Idinopulos, Thomas A.; Wilson, Brian C.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages).
• Notes: Essays.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The Strengths and Weaknesses of Durkheim's Methodology for the Study and Teachingof Religion /; The Creation of Human Behavior: Reconciling Durkheim and the Study of Religion /; Secularism and the Sacred: Is there Really Something Called “Secular Religion”? /; Pragmatism and Protestantism in the Development of Durkheim’s Sociology of Religion /; Robertson Smith’s Influence on Durkheim’s Theory of Myth and Ritual /; Durkheim, Kant and the Social Construction of the Categories /; The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes: An Overview /; Durkheim, Judaism and the Afterlife /; Durkheim and Early Christianity /; Altars and Chalkstones: The Anomalous Case of Puritan Sacred Space in Light of Durkheim’s Ritheory of Tual /; Select Bibliography /; Index of Names /; Index of Subjects /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-185) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004379150
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today is an occasion to critically analyze and reassess the work of this intellectual pioneer. It is also an effort to signal the continuing importance of Durkheim for today’s graduate and advanced undergraduate classrooms. Reappraising Durkheim brings together ten new critical essays in which noted sociologists, psychologists, phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of religion grapple with the questions Durkheim raised and the solutions he proposed. Taken together, the volume is a careful historical and multi-disciplinary study of Durkheim that will lead students to a better understanding of how to study religion. Reappraising Durkheim will be an excellent text for courses focusing on theory and method in the academic study of religion at both the graduate and advanced undergraduate level. It would therefore be appropriate for use in departments of religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology.