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Author Rawls, Anne Warfield, 1950-

Title Epistemology and practice : Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life / Anne Warfield Rawls
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 355 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Durkheim's Outline of the Argument in the Introductory Chapter; 2 Durkheim's Dualism: an Anti-Kantian, Anti-Rationalist Position; 3 Sacred and Profane: the First Classification; 4 Totemism and the Problem of Individualism; 5 The Origin of Moral Force; 6 The Primacy of Rites in the Origin of Causality; 7 Imitative Rites and the Category of Causality; 8 The Category of Causality; 9 Logic, Language and Science; 10 Durkheim's Conclusion Section iv: Logical Argument for Social Origin of the Categories
ConclusionBibliography; Index
Summary In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life has been consistently misunderstood. It is his crowning achievement and an attempt to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index
Notes English
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Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. English.
SUBJECT Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (Durkheim, Émile) fast
Subject Religion.
Totemism.
religion (discipline)
totemism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Religion
Totemism
Kennistheorie.
Godsdienstsociologie.
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