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Article: Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Sociology of Religion
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- March 22, 2004
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Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today, by THOMAS A. IDINOPULOS AND BRIAN C. WILSON (Eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2002, xix +192pp; $86.00 (cloth).
In format and general appearance, this volume (no. XCII in the Numen Book Series, Studies in the History of Religions), is reminiscent of a 1997 edited collection from Routledge dealing with Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Indeed a number of authors from that collection also appear here. Both volumes provide examples of new Durkheim scholarship promoted by bodies such as the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies (Oxford), among others.
The essays in this selection are of a ...