A01=Ivan Strenski
antisemitism
assimilation
Author_Ivan Strenski
Category=DNBH
Category=JBCC
Category=JBSR
Category=NHD
ceremony
community
durkheim
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essentialism
ethnicity
france
french
hinduism
identification
identity
influence
jewishness
jews
judaism
mauss
modernism
nation
nationalism
nonfiction
philosophy
reinach
religion
rite
ritual
sacred
sociality
sociology
spirituality
sylvain levi
symbolism
talmud
theory
universalism
Product details
- ISBN 9780226777238
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 15 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 1997
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Discussing the work of Emile Durkheim, the author of this study discounts the theory that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in his work. He seeks to show that Durkheim's sociology (especially his sociology of religion), was formed in relation to 19th and 20th century Jewish intellectual life in France. The book examines claims, some anti-Semitic, some not, for the Jewishness of Durkheim's work. In each case Strenski overturns the claim while showing that it can nevertheless open up a fruitful enquiry into the relation of Durkheim to French Jewry. For example, Strenski shows that Durkheim's celebration of ritual had no innately Jewish source, but derived crucially from work on Hinduism by the Jewish Indologist Sylvain Levi, whose influence on Durkheim and his followers has never been acknowledged.
