The elementary forms as political (a)theology
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Date
2014
Authors
Ramp, William
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Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Abstract
Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life examines a fundamental intercalation of selfhood, sociality and cosmology, but as a response to a particular political context, it may also speak to contemporary issues of sovereignty and democracy. Reading the Elementary Forms in this context, and in light of Durkheim’s references to monarchy, absolutism and revolution, is suggestive of an approach to such issues which resists sacrifice of the social to the sovereign, whether hierarchical or popular.
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Open access
Keywords
Durkheim , Sovereignty , Political sociology , Revolution , Sacred , Representation
Citation
Ramp. W. (2014). The elementary forms as political (a)theology. Canadian Journal of Sociiology, 39(3), 595-618.