On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

N.J. Allen (Edited by) ,  W.S.F. Pickering (Edited by) ,  W. Watts Miller (Edited by)

• Introduction 1 Spencer and Gillen in Durkheim: the theoretical construction of ethnography 2 Did Lucien Lèvy-Bruhl answer the objections made in Les Formes èlèmentaires? 3 Religion and science in The Elementary Forms 4 The concept of belief in The Elementary Forms 5 Durkheim, Kant, the immortal soul and God 6 The cult of images: reading chapter VII, book II, of The Elementary Forms. 7 Durkheim and sacred identity 8 Rescuing Durkheim’s ‘rites’ from the symbolizing anthropologists 9 Durkheim’s bourgeois theory of sacrifice 10 Memory and the sacred: the cult of anniversaries and commemorative rituals in the light of The Elementary Forms 11 Effervescence, differentiation and representation in The Elementary Forms 12 Effervescence and the origins of human society 13 Change, innovation, creation: Durkheim’s ambivalence 14 Durkheim on the causes and functions of the categories 15 Durkheim and a priori truth: conformity as a philosophical problem