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Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites - Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society (Hardcover, New)
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Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites - Classical Durkheimian Studies of Religion and Society (Hardcover, New)
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"Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred" presents
English translations of several important essays, some never before
translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group
around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert,
and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today s growing interest
in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture,
religion, and symbolism. The central thrust in this new
interpretive effort uses the Durkheimian theory of the sacred to
understand the symbolism and meanings of cultural structures and
narratives more generally. This book is vital to any contemporary
collection emphasizing social theory.Durkheim indicated in "The
Elementary Forms" that the sacred would certainly transform itself
in modernity, although he limited his conjecture as to precisely
how it would do so to some brief remarks on popular political
manifestations of collective effervescence and sacred symbolic
production. Much contemporary work in cultural sociology has made
use of this observation by Durkheim to postulate new manifestations
of the sacred in secular cultural forms. The texts translated here
show how thoroughly such efforts can be rooted in the work emerging
in the original Durkheimian school during its heyday in the first
two decades of the 20th century. "
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