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1. Introduction: The New Durkheim Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith Part I. Life, Context and Ideas: 2. Durkheim, life and context: something new about Durkheim? Marcel Fournier 3. Durkheim's squares: types of social pathology and types of suicide Philippe Besnard 4. Practices and presuppositions: some questions about Durkheim and 'Les Formes Elementaires de la vie religieuse' Robert Alun Jones 5. The Durkheimian movement in France and world sociology Randall Collins 6. The inner development of Durkheim's sociological theory: from early writings to maturity Jeffrey C. Alexander 7. What difference does translation make: 'Les Formes Elementaires de la vie religieuse' in French and English Karen E. Fields Part II. Symbols, Rituals and Bodies. 8. Durkheim and ritual Robert N. Bellah 9. Embodiment, emotions and the foundations of social order: Durkheim's enduring contribution Chris Shilling 10. Drag Kings at the Totem Ball: the erotics of collective representation in Emile Durkheim Roger Friedland 11. 'Renegade Durkheimianism' and the transgressive left sacred Alexander Riley Part III. Solidarity, Difference and Morality: 12. Durkheim, solidarity and September 11 Edward A. Tiryakian 13. Foundations of class analysis: a Durkheimian perspective David B. Grusky with Gabriela Galescu 14. Durkheim's society revisited Zygmunt Baumann 15. Beyond solidarity? Durkheim and twenty-first century democracy in a global age Mark Cladis Appendix 1. Works by Durkheim and selected further reading.