In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that
Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning
achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its
publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently
misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the
sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by
Durkheim to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study
of sociology and moral relations. By privileging social practice
over beliefs and ideas, it avoids the dilemmas inherent in
philosophical approaches to knowledge and morality that are based
on individualism and the tendency to privilege beliefs and ideas
over practices, both tendencies that dominate western thought.
Based on detailed textual analysis of the primary text, this book
will be an important and original contribution to contemporary
debates on social theory and philosophy.
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