Defending the Durkheimian Tradition: Religion, Emotion and Morality (Rethinking Classical Sociology) - Softcover

Fish, Jonathan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367604353 ISBN 13: 9780367604356

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides an exciting, accessible and wide-ranging guide to the development of classical and contemporary Durkheimian thought. Jonathan Fish offers a re-reading of the writings of Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parsons on religion. He aims to move beyond rationalistic readings which have neglected the key significance of collective human emotion in Durkheim's accounts of the link between society, religion and morality. He goes on to look at the development of these ideas in the work of Parsons and more recent Durkheimian thinkers. Making an important contribution both to studies of Durkheim and the Durkheimian tradition and to the sociology of emotion, the book is distinctive in arguing that religion is an essential backdrop for understanding emotion. In making this claim the author provides a key to re-establishing links between the sociology of religion and the wider discipline of sociology.

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About the Author

Jonathan Fish is at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367604353
• ISBN 13: 9780367604356
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216