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  • The Making of a Postsecular Society

    A Durkheimian Approach to Memory, Pluralism and Religion in Turkey

    by Massimo Rosati ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    Drawing on the thought of Durkheim, this volume focuses on societal changes at the symbolic level to develop a new conceptualisation of the emergence of postsecular societies. Neo-Durkheimian categories are applied to the case of Turkey, which in recent years has shifted from a strong Republican and Kemalist view of secularism to a more Anglo-Saxon perspective. Turkish society thus constitutes an ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Suffering and Evil

    The Durkheimian Legacy

    Edited by W. S. F. Pickering, Massimo Rosati ...
    Series Book 0 - Publications of the Durkheim Press
    Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil and suffering have in Durkheim's works, together with the general role they play in his sociology. It also ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Ritual and the Sacred

    A Neo-Durkheimian Analysis of Politics, Religion and the Self

    by Massimo Rosati ...
    Ritual and the Sacred discusses some of the most important issues of modern socio-political life through the lens of a neo-Durkheimian perspective. Building on the main lesson of Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this book articulates values and practices common to non-Western and religious traditions that have the capacity to shape our modern way of living. Central to this volume is ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

    by Kristina Stoeckl ...
    Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'. It draws upon case study material from Africa, The Middle East, Russia and South America to examine the question of whether ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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    Politics as Relational Praxis

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy. He argues that democracy is not a stable system anchored in a manifest authority (like monarchy), but is sustained by the recessed and purely potential rule of the "people". Hence, democracy has to constantly reinvent itself, resembling theologically a creatio continua. Like one of Calder's mobiles, democracy for ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
    Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are in fact powerful, pervasive forces.In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Religion and Modern Society

    Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Foucault Now

    Edited by James Faubion ...
    Series series Theory Now
    Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Breaking Boundaries

    Varieties of Liminality

    Edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, Harald Wydra ...
    Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Subject of Virtue

    An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom

    by James Laidlaw ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct which social theory has so far failed adequately to address. An ideal introduction for students and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Religion on the Edge

    De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion

    Edited by Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, David Smilde ...
    The thirteen essays in this volume challenge conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. Religion on the Edge offers groundbreaking new methodologies and models, bringing to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Foucault and the Making of Subjects

    Edited by Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli ...
    Series series New Politics of Autonomy
    Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD