Reappraising Durkheim for the study and teaching of religion today
By: edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson.
Contributors: Idinopulos, Thomas A.; Wilson, Brian C.
Series: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions ;; v. 92; Studies in the history of religions ;; 92.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Durkheim, Emile, 1858-1917; Religion -- Study and teaching -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-185) and indexes.
Essays.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Strengths and Weaknesses of Durkheim's1; title: Methodology for the Study and Teaching of Religion; title: THOMAS A. IDINOPULOS; title: 2 The Creation of Human Behavior: Reconciling15; title: Durkheim and the Study of Religion; title: WILLIAM E. PADEN; title: 3 Secularism and the Sacred: Is There Really27; title: Something Called "Secular Religion"?; title: W. WATTS MILLER; title: 4 Pragmatism and Protestantism in the Development45; title: of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion; title: ROBERT ALUNJONES; title: 5 Robertson Smith's Influence on Durkheim's59; title: Theory of Myth and Ritual; title: ROBERT A. SEGAL; title: 6 Durkheim, Kant and the Social Construction73; title: of the Categories; title: ToNY EDWARDS; title: 7 The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the85; title: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: An Overview; title: JOHN I. BROOKS III; title: 8 Durkheim, Judaism and the Afterlife111; title: IVAN STRENSKI; title: 9 Durkheim and Early Christianity143; title: JAMES CONSTANTINE HANGES; title: 10. Altars and Chalkstones: The Anomalous Case of Puritan163; title: Sacred Space in Light of Durkheim's Theory of Ritual; title: BRIAN C. WILSON; title: Select Bibliography183; title: Index of Names187; title: Index of Subjects189.