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The new Durkheim
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ISBN: 9780813538945 9780813538938 0813538939 0813538947 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press,

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Why politics can't be freed from religion
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ISBN: 9781405176491 1405176490 9781405176484 1405176482 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell,

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Religion. Power. Politics. Ideas and institutions that have been laden with a baggage of meanings picked up through the course of history and which, unfairly or not, are often defined by these historic and social contexts. In this thought-provoking book, Ivan Strenski unpacks the central concepts and influences of religion, politics, and power, and provides a new theoretical framework to think about what they mean in today s society. In addition to offering radical critiques of the religious and political perspectives of thinkers such as Talal Asad and Michel Foucault, Strenski moves beyond the theory in applying his intellectual framework to a variety of real-world issues, including insights into suicide bombers in the Middle East. Erudite and engaging, Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion provides a timely and highly original contribution to our understanding of these concepts. It tries to dislodge readers from conventional thinking about politics and religion, and in doing so, helps make sense of the complexities of our twenty-first-century world.

Contesting sacrifice : religion, nationalism, and social thought in France
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ISBN: 0226777367 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Malinowski and the Work of Myth
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ISBN: 0691074143 0691020779 1400862809 0691601550 9781400862801 0691631212 9780691631219 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths as part of the functional, pragmatic, or performed dimension of culture--that is, as part of activities that did certain tasks for particular human communities. Spanning his entire career, this anthology brings together for the first time the important texts from his work on myth. Ivan Strenski's introduction places Malinowski in his intellectual world and traces his evolving conception of mythology. As Strenski points out, Malinowski was a pioneer in applying the lessons of psychoanalysis to the study of culture, while at the same time he attempted to correct the generalizations of psychoanalysis with the cross-cultural researches of ethnology. With his growing interest in psychoanalysis came a conviction that myths performed essential cultural tasks in "chartering" all sort of human institutions and practices.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Theology and the first theory of sacrifice
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ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9004132767 9004135596 1423714415 9786610467860 128046786X 9047402731 9789004135598 9781423714415 9789047402732 9789004132764 Year: 2003 Volume: 98 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Are social scientific theories and confessional theologies of sacrifice equally well suited as public discourse about religion? The French liberal Protestant theologians of the 5th Section of the École Pratique and the French doyen of sociology, Émile Durkheim and his two main followers, Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, engage in a struggle over the proper approach to sacrifice in the public university. The Durkheimians argued that theological language and assumptions were inappropriate for this purpose because of their confessional allegiances. Another approach to sacrifice, free of confessional entanglements, was required. This is what Hubert and Mauss sought to provide in the Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function.


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Dumont on religion : difference, comparison, transgression
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ISBN: 9781845532734 9781845532741 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Equinox,

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Religion. --- Dumont, Louis,


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Four theories of myth in twentieth-century history : Cassirer, Eliade, Lévi-Strauss and Malinowski
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ISBN: 0877451818 9780877451815 Year: 1987 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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La mémoire et le temps : L'œuvre transdiciplinaire d'Henri Hubert (1872-1927)
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ISBN: 2354571631 2354571216 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : Demopolis,

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Quand Marcel Mauss entrait dans la lumière, son alter ego Henri Hubert (1872-1927) se retirait dans l'ombre. Les deux amis s'étaient pourtant promis de refonder ensemble l'étude des sociétés et des cultures : à Mauss les organisations et les pratiques sociales actuelles, et à Hubert celles du passé, dont témoignent l'histoire et l'archéologie. Ou encore : à Mauss l'espace, et à Hubert le temps. Mort trop jeune, Henri Hubert est l'un des derniers savants à avoir exploré plusieurs disciplines à la fois. Historien des religions, il a été également sociologue, au sein de l'équipe d'Émile Durkheim, mais aussi archéologue et muséographe, auprès de Salomon Reinach au musée des Antiquités nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Les meilleurs spécialistes des travaux d'Henri Hubert ont été réunis dans cet ouvrage, pour proposer pour la première fois une vision d'ensemble de l'œuvre transdisciplinaire de ce « jumeau de travail » de Mauss. Car, dans les différents champs qu'il a explorés, Hubert a développé une approche profondément nouvelle du temps social et culturel : un temps « qualitatif » qui est celui de la mémoire.

Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change

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The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

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