Durkheim in Dialogue (eBook)

Sondra L. Hausner is Oxford¹s first University Lecturer in the Study of Religion. An anthropologist by training, she teaches social and cultural theories of religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Her ethnographic work focuses on Himalayan and South Asian religions and the social dynamics of ritual. She won the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences from the American Institute of Indian Studies for her Durkheim-inspired monograph, Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas (Indiana University Press, 2007).

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors

Introduction: Durkheim in Disciplinary Dialogue
Sondra L. Hausner

Chapter 1. The Notion of Soul and Science Positive: A Retrieval of Durkheim’s Method
Karen E. Fields

PART I: SOCIAL FORMS

Chapter 2. Return to Durkheim: Civil Religion and the Moral Reconstruction of China
Zhe Ji

Chapter 3. Elementary Forms of War: Performative Aspects of Youth Militia in Sierra Leone
Paul Richards

Chapter 4. Elementary Forms vs. Psychology in Contemporary Cinema
Louise Child

PART II: COLLECTIVE MINDS

Chapter 5. Durkheim’s Sacred-Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of It?
N.J. Allen

Chapter 6. Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological Retrospective
Clive Gamble

Chapter 7. Durkheim, Anthropology, and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Élémentaires de la vie Religieuse
Susan Stedman Jones

PART III: EFFERVESCENCE

Chapter 8. Is Individual to Collective as Freud is to Durkheim?
Sondra L. Hausner

Chapter 9. Collective Representations, Discourses of Power, and Personal Agency: Three Incommensurate Histories of a Collaborator’s Rebellion in the Colonial Sudan
Gerd Baumann

Chapter 10. Actants Amassing (AA): Beyond Collective Effervescence and the Social
Adam Yuet Chau

FIN

Chapter 11. The Creation and Problematic Achievement of Les Formes Élémentaires
W. Watts Miller