Durkheim on Religion

The Revd Dr William S.F. Pickering has been an Anglican priest since 1950, and for twenty years was a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently the General Secretary of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, which he helped to found in 1991. It is based in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University.He has written and edited a number of books on Durkheim and his followers, as well as many articles. Among his other publications are Sociology and Theology: Alliance and Conflict (Harvester Press, 1980), A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle 1882-1982 (Oriel Press, 1981), The Hutterites (Ward Lock Educational, 1982) and Anglo-Catholicism: A Study in Religious Ambiguity, which has also been reprinted by James Clarke and Co Ltd.

• AcknowledgementsThe translationsNotationAbbreviationsIntroductionDurkheim1. Review. 'Herbert Spencer - Ecclesiatical Institutions'2. Review. 'Guyau - L'Irréligion de l'avenir'3. Suicide. Book II, chapter 24. 'Individualism and the intellectuals'5. 'Concerning the definition of religious phenomena'6. Note. 'Religious systems of primitive societies' (I)7. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: the Totemic System in Australia8. Note. 'Religious systems of primitive societies' (II)9. Review. 'Lévy-Bruhl - Les Fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures' and 'Durkheim - Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse'10. Review with M. Mauss. 'Frazer - Totemism and Exogamy' and 'Durkheim - Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse'11. Contribution to discussion. 'Religious sentiment at the present time'12. Moral Education. IntroductionOther authors13. A. van Gennep 14. A.A. Goldenweiser15. G. Richard16. W.E.H. StannerBibliographyAbstracts. Durkheim and ReligionA note on the life of Gaston Richard and certain aspects of his workName indexSubject index

'An Anglican priest, sociologist, and Durkheim scholar, Pickering presents 12 essays, papers, and book chapters by pioneer French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) concerning religion that have not been translated into English before, or were translated in some deficient manner.' --Book News Inc, June 2011