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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – Abridged, 5 Apr 2001

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; abridged edition edition (5 April 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0192832557
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192832559
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 2 x 12.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Carol Cosman has translated works by Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Balzac and Yasmina Reza Mark Cladis is the author of A Communitarian Defense of Liberalim: Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory (Stanford, 1992) and editor of Durkheim and Foucault: Perspectives on Education and Punishment (1999).

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Advent of Sociology
By Mr. L. Pennal on 6 Nov. 2009
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Heralding the consolidation of modern sociology as an objective and scientific discipline within the Humanities, the works of Emile Durkheim reach a fascinating and approachable culmination in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It provides an important conceptual foundation to the history of French Intellectualism over the course of the twentieth century and is an eminently worthy departure in understanding suceeding writers such as Marcel Mauss, Robert Hertz, the Structural Marxists of the 1960s, and Claude Levi-Strauss.

His efforts in establishing sociology as a serious and pursuable academic discipline are of an invaluable and profound scope. Seeking to place the subject on a similar standing to that of the Natural Sciences and the nascent Psychology, Durkheim essentially came to analyse society in much the same way that a psychoanalyst would analyse an individual patient. He implemented several objective tools in this pursuit, such as the conception of the social fact and the social consciousness, and came to understand the influences of different parts of society upon the individual and the whole and how they related to one another.

Within the Elementary Forms of Religious Life Durkheim applies this almost psychological perspective to the operation of religion within societies and groups. Although both rich and fascinating in its myriad accounts of differing rituals and practices, the greatest power of the book is invariably its ability in looking past the subjective and surface values of religion and observing instead the universal structures and phenomenon which unite its purposes to all of humanity.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsLoved the ideas hated the style
By Steve W on 21 Jun. 2012
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This book had some great insights into how religions form and develop. It had interesting comments about the value of religion. However, the language used was so difficult to wade through. Ok I'm not a sociologist but I'm not thick either. I wouldn't put anyone off reading it because of its great ideas but be warned I found it like wading through treacle. Does anyone know of a book which has a good summary of his arguments?
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5.0 out of 5 starsMust read for anyone interested in religion, society or philosphy
By philogos on 12 Aug. 2013
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This book is worth reading just for the introduction and the book itself provides a fascinating insight on why societies need religion, how it has developed and the function it performs in society. Any religious person needs to read it as background to their own beliefs while atheists should consider the way in which it illuminates the value of religion in the world.
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