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Sociology and Law: The 150th Anniversary of Emile Durkheim
Author(s): Stephen Hunt (Author, Editor), Maria Serafimova (Author, Editor), with Vladimir Vladov (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 13 May 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 295 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443805025
- ISBN-13: 9781443805025
Book Description
Emile Durkheim’s conceptual framework outlined social reality as a moral social environment consisting of supra-individual norms for thought and action. Law, morals and other spheres of social order are generated within and by society. Law is a visible external symbol. Durkheim reaches the conclusion that penal law is religious in its nature. Most of the texts deal with the relations between Sociology and Law and refer to Durkheim’s heritage in dealing with specific problems in different societies and fields of study. Topics range from Socio-Legal Studies and Law, to analyses of constitutions, case studies from the judicial system and civil servants, new religious movements, Durkheim’s place in the Sociology of Religion. Other topics cover contemporary ethnic conflict, cyberspace, media, morality, education, gender studies, etc. This book will be of interest to sociologists, lawyers, anthropologists, historians, scholars in cultural studies, religious studies, students, researchers, etc.
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About the Author
Dr. Maria Serafimova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. She specializes in sociological and religious issues as they pertain to modernity, church-state relations, and the general role of religion in society. Her recent research includes the “otherness” of Bulgarian-Muslims and the impact of the urban environment on society. Dr. Stephen Hunt is a Reader in the Sociology of Religion based at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. His specialised interest in Contemporary Christianity has led to research into such areas as Charismatic and Pentecostal movements, Christianity and political mobilisation, Christianity and non-heterosexualities, and the interface between Sociology and Theology. Mario Marinov is a Major Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, and Head of the Information Centre for the Study of New Religious Movements, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Participant in many research projects such as the European Values Study, and Religions and Values: Central and Eastern European Research Network.
