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How was sociology invented?

Q&A / A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah’s latest ...
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Is the ‘malady of infinite aspiration’ a permanent condition of the modern age?

When he was appointed the first ever lecturer in sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1887, Emile Durkheim was in no doubt that new fashions were often quickly embraced by the poorer and more ...
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Introduction to a Bibliographical Focus on Emile Durkheim

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR), the quarterly publication of the Society for the Scientific Study of ...
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Incest; the nature and origin of the taboo, by Emile Durkheim. Translated, with an introd., by Edward Sagarin. Together with The origins and the development of the incest taboo ...

This work of Durkheim originally appeared as La prohibition de l'inceste et ses origines in L'Année sociologique, v. 1, 1897.
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Seven theories of religion / Daniel L. Pals

Animism and magic: E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazier -- Religion and personality: Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred: Emile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation: Karl Marx -- Reality of the sacred: Mircea ...