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Contents

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

Durkheim in Dialogue

A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Edited by Sondra L. Hausner

280 pages, 10 figures & tables, 1 map, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78238-021-4 Hb Published (November 2013)

eISBN 978-1-78238-022-1 eBook