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Émile Durkheim on Religious Belief - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas IV 73 Religious Belief/Durkheim/Habermas: Durkheim does not analyze religious belief and patriotism like G. GH. Mead, as out-of-the-ordinary attitudes of modern contemporaries, but as an expression of a collective consciousness deeply rooted in phylogenetic history, which is constitutive for the identity of groups. Habermas IV 74 HabermasVsDurkheim: Durkheim does not sufficiently distinguish between the commonality of ritual practice created by religious symbolism and a linguistically generated inter-subjectivity. >Language community, >Intersubjectivity. Habermas IV 83 Religious Belief/Durkheim/Habermas: Religious belief is always belief of a collective. It emerges from a practice that he interprets at the same time. Religious beliefs are already formulated linguistically, they are the common possession of a religious community, whose members assure themselves of their commonness in ritual actions.(1) Habermas IV 84 Durkheim/Habermas: religion is no longer presented in a positivist manner, in the manner of a theory that (...) represents society as a whole. Instead, there is now a dynamic view. Once ritual practice is recognized as the more original phenomenon, religious symbolism can be understood as a means for a special form of symbolically mediated interaction. This, the ritual practice, serves a communicative communion. >Religion, >Practise. 1. E. Durkheim, Les formes élementaires de la vie religieuse, Paris, 1968, German: Frankfurt 1981 p. 28._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Durkheim I E. Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Method - French: Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique, Paris 1895 German Edition: Die Regeln der soziologischen Methode Frankfurt/M. 1984 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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