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Marcel Mauss et la sociologie de la religion

Renata MENEZES

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Bresil, renata{at}iserassessoria.org.br

English

If for anthropologists and ethnologists the importance of Marcel Mauss is evident, for sociologists of religion he is sometimes relegated to the background, somewhat overshadowed by the figure of his uncle, Emile Durkheim. In the literature of the social sciences, works by Mauss on religions are cited as important but outmoded on a theoretical level, or else they are considered to be simple applications of Durkheimian theories of the sacred to concrete situations. The author offers a few observations on the specificities and relevance of Mauss’s work. In the present context, witnessing a rise in new religious movements and other non-institutionalized practices, and due to the problematization of the limits of the religious, his work offers innumerable elements useful in the construction of a theoretical arsenal and of objects capable of contributing to understanding that reality.

French

Si pour les anthropologues et les ethnologues, l'importance de Marcel Mauss est évidente, pour les sociologues de la religion il est parfois relégué au second plan, quelque peu occulté par la figure de son oncle, Emile Durkheim. Dans la littérature des sciences sociales, les travaux de Mauss sur les religions sont cités comme importants mais dépassés sur le plan théorique. Ou bien ils sont conside īrés comme de simples applications à des situations concre`tes des théories durkheimiennes du sacré. L'auteure avance quelques observations sur les spécificités et l'actualité du travail de Mauss. Dans le contexte actuel de surgissement de nouveaux mouvements religieux et d'autres pratiques non institutionnalisées et par sa problématisation des frontiéres du religieux, son oeuvre offre d'innombrables éléments utiles à la construction d'un arsenal théorique et d'objets pouvant contribuer à la compréhension de cette réalité.

Key Words: French sociology • Marcel Mauss • sociological theory • sociology of religion

Social Compass, Vol. 52, No. 2, 255-271 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0037768605052606


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