Autore
Tiryakian, Edward A.

Titolo
Bellah, Joas and the Future of "The Elementary Forms"
Periodico
Sociologica
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 0

While traditional religion has been losing ground in the public sphere in the UnitedStates, the sociology of religion has been gaining vitality from several sources, even beyondthe many conferences held in 2012 to commemorate Durkheim's epochal Elementary Formsof the Religious Life. One set of empirical stimuli has been the work of Christian Smith andthe Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. A secondstimulus is new analytical and theoretical endeavors expanding on the sociology of civilizations,with important contributions from Parsons and Eisenstadt. A pinnacle of this development isthe recent cultural evolutionary thinking of Bellah [2012], synthesizing materials from Jaspers,Eisenstadt, and cognitive neuroscientist Merlin Donald. As a grand narrative, it bears comparisonwith E. O. Wilson's and Teilhard de Chardin's evolutionary frame. We are still grapplingwith Durkheim's challenge of what are the religious forms appropriate for our advanced modernity.



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