Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)

Sociology of Religion | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today, by THOMAS A. IDINOPULOS AND BRIAN C. WILSON (Eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2002, xix +192pp; $86.00 (cloth).

In format and general appearance, this volume (no. XCII in the Numen Book Series, Studies in the History of Religions), is reminiscent of a 1997 edited collection from Routledge dealing with Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Indeed a number of authors from that collection also appear here. Both volumes provide examples of new Durkheim scholarship promoted by bodies such as the British ...

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