The Elementary Forms as Political (A)theology
Abstract. Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life examines a fundamental intercalation of selfhood, sociality and cosmology, but as a response to a particular political context, it may also speak to contemporary issues of sovereignty and democracy. Reading the Elementary Forms in this con...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie. - The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 1975. - 39(2014), 4, Seite 595-618 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2014
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie |
| Schlagworte: | Durkheim sovereignty political sociology revolution sacred representation souveraineté sociologie politique révolution sacré mehr... |
| Zusammenfassung: | Abstract. Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life examines a fundamental intercalation of selfhood, sociality and cosmology, but as a response to a particular political context, it may also speak to contemporary issues of sovereignty and democracy. Reading the Elementary Forms in this context, and in light of Durkheim's references to monarchy, absolutism and revolution, is suggestive of an approach to such issues which resists sacrifice of the social to the sovereign, whether hierarchical or popular. |
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| ISSN: | 17101123 |