Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today.

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 Du...

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Superior document:Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 92
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
  • The Strengths and Weaknesses of Durkheim's Methodology for the Study and Teachingof Religion / Thomas A. Idinopulos
  • The Creation of Human Behavior: Reconciling Durkheim and the Study of Religion / William E. Paden
  • Secularism and the Sacred: Is there Really Something Called “Secular Religion”? / W. Watts Miller
  • Pragmatism and Protestantism in the Development of Durkheim’s Sociology of Religion / Robert Alun Jones
  • Robertson Smith’s Influence on Durkheim’s Theory of Myth and Ritual / Robert A. Segal
  • Durkheim, Kant and the Social Construction of the Categories / Tony Edwards
  • The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes: An Overview / John I. Brooks
  • Durkheim, Judaism and the Afterlife / Ivan Strenski
  • Durkheim and Early Christianity / James Constantine Ranges
  • Altars and Chalkstones: The Anomalous Case of Puritan Sacred Space in Light of Durkheim’s Ritheory of Tual / Brian C. Wilson
  • Select Bibliography / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
  • Index of Names / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
  • Index of Subjects / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson.