Why Durkheim really thought that Buddhism was a ‘religion’ (in memoriam Massimo Rosati)
In The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, and in ‘On the Definition of Religious Phenomena,' Durkheim famously asserted both that Buddhism was a ‘religion' and an ‘atheistic' one at that. Why he did so is a problem long-considered settled. Of two possible answers, one is commonpl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Pages: 653-670 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Durkheim, Émile 1858-1917, Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse
/ Buddhism
/ Atheism
/ Religion
/ Foundations of
/ Meaning of life
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism |
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Making a life
B Buddhism B dynamogenism |
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