Re:Thinking The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Coline Ferrant (1)

1 OSC - Observatoire sociologique du changement (Sciences Po, CNRS)

I envision to revisit the ethnographic material that undergirds The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), but with different empirical foci and theoretical objectives. I develop this project referring to The Elementary Forms, Durkheim's other works, and Durkheim scholarship. I discuss the rationales in revisiting The Elementary Forms, propose two ideas of revisits, and sketch an inventory of the sources to undertake them.

Mots clés: Emile Durkheim; religion; rituals; morality; anthropology; Australian Aboriginal

Domaines: Sociologie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Coline Ferrant. Re:Thinking The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 2018, 132, pp.20 - 22. ⟨hal-03471626⟩