📱 eBook en inglés DURKHEIM'S SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Religion is central to Durkheims theory of society, and his work laid most of the foundations of the sociology of religion. Daring and brilliant though his analysis was, its bold claims and questionable premises has made it the subject of ongoing academic debate. Durkheims work on the subject reached a peak with the publication in 1912 of what turned out to be a classic in its field, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. No other book has explained Durkheims views on religion using thewhole corpus of his writings. Dr Pickering shows how Durkheims position developed and explains the themes and theories that run through Durkheims work. This includes Durkheims attitude towards secularisation and Christian churches, as well as hisnotion of the contemporary cult of the individual.