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Durkheim, in his very role as a "founding father" of a new social science has become like a figure in an old r

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A Durkheimian Quest: Solidarity and the Sacred
0857455494, 9780857455499

In a tale that begins at a zoo in Zurich and takes us across the deserts of Ethiopia to the Asir Mountains in Saudi Arab

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Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkhe

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How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life • Examines the neuroc

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Explores the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in the medieval Muslim Middle East Draws on a wide variety

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Democracy has become disentangled from our ordinary lives. Mere cooperation or ethical consumption now often stands in f

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In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there

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The specter of the sacred always haunts the law, even in the most resolute of contemporary secular democracies. Indeed,

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American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this

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