Epistemology and practice
Subtitle: Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life
By: Anne Warfield Rawls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Durkheim, Emile, -- 1858-1917.; Religion; Totemism
Description: "Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique, epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-344) and index