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Emile Durkheim's matrix -- On discovering Durkheim -- Emile Durkheim and social change -- Durkheim and Husserl : a comparison of the spirit of positivism and the spirit of phenomenology -- Durkheim, Mathiez, and the French Revolution : the political context of a sociological classic -- Situating Durkheim's sociology of work -- Durkheim, solidarity and September 11 -- Contextualizing the emergence of sociology : the Durkheimian school in -- Search of bygone society -- Avant-garde art and avant-garde sociology : primitivism and Durkheim ca. 1905-1913 -- From Durkheim to Managua : revolutions as religious revivals -- Sexual anomie, social structure, and societal change -- No laughing matter : understanding violent reactions to Danish Muhammed: cartoons -- A problem for the sociology of knowledge : the mutual unawareness of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber -- Neither Marx nor Durkheim : perhaps Weber -- Durkheim and Weber : first cousins? -- Collective effervescence, social change, and charisma : Durkheim, Weber and 1989 -- On the shoulders of Weber and Durkheim: East Asia and emergent modernity

The editors of Durkheim, The Durkheimians and the Arts, ask how come the benign neglect of the arts in the sociological curriculum? They consider Durkheim and his followers as source of a tradition that needs to be investigated. Their focus is on the post-WWI Durkheimians, led by Marcel Mauss and his pupils.

Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has redrawn understanding of the loci and agents of modern nationalism. Whereas standard interpretations had privileged the movements of modernity of Western nation-states, Anderson's analysis gave priority to the role of peripheral elites in "imagining the nation" beyond the boundaries of the everyday world. What Anderson leaves out altogether in his seminal study is the bearing of the religious factor in various peripheral settings in such regions as sub-Sahara Africa and East Asia. This article, extending Max Weber's notion of charismatic leadership, proposes that in concrete cases of "colonial situations" in Africa and in two East Asian countries of weak states, religio-political figures arose seeking a new social order that had mass appeal. Their successes and failures should be seen as integral comparative aspects of nationalism and modernity

What is the nature of the post-9/11 global order? What types of transnational conflicts are we likely to see in the years ahead? Will the United States dominate this new world order? Can it? A panel of distinguished sociologists tackles these questions.

The second half of the 20th century has been marked by widespread conflict within states, tensions erupting into violence & civil war. For example, in Rwanda almost 800,000 Tutsis were brutally killed by their neighboring Hutus. Other examples include Indonesia, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, & Yugoslavia. In response, a multidisciplinary team of scholars drawn from twenty-one countries were selected as Fulbright Scholars to collaborate on a project entitled, "Addressing Sectarian, Ethnic, and Cultural Conflict within and across National Borders." During three conferences, the team identified three components that are interrelated in times of violence: factors creating severe ethnic conflict; factors & mechanisms involved in the peace processes; & the dynamics of collective identity. This article serves as an introduction to the subsequent papers in which the fellows' findings are described. 8 References. R. Prince