Emile Durkheim: Select Bibliography

Belier, Wouter W.  “Durkheim, Mauss, Classical Evolutionism and the Origin of Religion” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Volume 11, Issue 1 (1999): 24-46 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Cladis, Mark S. “Rousseau and Durkheim : The Relation between the Public and the Private.” Journal of Religious Ethics Volume 21, Issue 1 (1993): 1-25 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Collinson, Patrick. “Religion, Society, and the Historian” Journal of Religious History Volume 23, Issue 2 (1999): 149-167 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Cotterrell, Roger.  Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Douglas, Jack D. The Social Meanings of Suicide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Emibayer, Mustafa, ed. Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity. Malden: Blackwell, 2003.

Farooqui, Jamil. “Durkheim’s Concept of Man and Society: An Analysis” Encounters Volume 4, Issue 1 (1998): 181-204.

Fish, Jonathan S.  Defending the Durkheimian tradition: religion, emotion, and morality. Burlington: Ashgate, 2005.

Gergory, B.S. “The Other Confessional History: On Secular Bias in the Study of Religion” History and Theory Volume 45, Issue 4 (2006): 132-49 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

Godlove, T. F. “Epistemology in Durkheim’s Elementary forms of religious life” Journal of the History of Philosophy Volume 24, Issue 3 (1986): 385-401 [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

Hertel, Bradley R.; Donahue, Michael J. “Parental Influences On God Images Among Children : Testing Durkheim's Metaphoric Parallelism” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Volume 34, Issue 2 (1995): 186-199 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Lukes, Steven. Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work, a Historical and Critical Study. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1985.

McDonald, Henry.  The ethics of comparative religion. Lanham: University Press of America, 1984.

Mellor, Philip A. “Rational Choice or Sacred Contagion? ‘Rationality,’ ‘Non-rationality’ and Religion” Social Compass Volume 47, Issue 2 (2000): 273-292 [Available online through SAGE Publications]

Mellor, Philip A. “Religion as an elementary aspect of society: Durkheim’s legacy for social theory” Theorising Religion. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 3-18.

Mestrovic, S. G. “Reappraising Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of the Religious Life in the context of Schopenhauer’s philosophy” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Volume 28, Issue 3 (1989): 255-72 [Available online through JSTOR]

Morrison, Ken. Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006.

Nielsen, Donald A. Three faces of God: society, religion, and the categories of totality in the philosophy of Emile Durkheim. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Paden, William E. “Before ‘the sacred’ became theological: rereading the Durkheimian legacy” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Volume 3, Issue 1 (1991): 10-23 [Available online through Ingenta Connect Brill Academic Publishers]

Pickering, W.S.F. Durkheim's Sociology of Religion: Themes and Theories. Abingdon: Routledge, 1984.

Schmaus, W. “Hypotheses and historical analysis in Durkheim’s sociological methodology: A Comtean tradition” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Volume 16, Issue 1 (1985): 1-30 [Available online through Elsevier ScienceDirect Pergamon]

Shaw, D.W.D.  The dissuaders: three explanations of religion. London: SCM Press, 1978.

Stausberg, M. “The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (I): Prehistory and history until World War II” Religion Volume 37, Issue 4 (2007): 294-318 [Available online through Elsevier ScienceDirect Academic Press]

Taylor, Mark C. “The politics of theo-ry” Journal of the American Academy of Religion Volume 59, Issue 1 (1991): 1-37 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Wright, Terrence R. “Holiness in the modern world: Durkheim, Otto, Bataille and Lawrence” Transforming holiness. Dudley: Peeters, 2006. 161-179.


 
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