Durkheim og “Religionens fremtid”: En oversættelse af en tale af Émile Durkheim med indledning

Abstract

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present article marks the centennial of Émile Durkheim’s speech “L’avenir de la religion” which was transcribed and published in 1914. Following an introductory sketch of (primarily) Danish academic research into Durkheim’s thoughts and writings I will present a translation into Danish of the speech.DANSK RESUME: Denne artikel markerer hundredåret for Émile Durkheims afholdelse af talen ”L’avenir de la religion”, som blev nedskrevet og udgivet i 1914. Efter en indledende skitsering af (hovedsageligt) den danske akademiske læsning og forskningen i Durkheims tænkning og forfatterskab følger en oversættelse af talen til dansk.

“Each of Our Springs Has Lost Its Miraculous Power”

“…Durkheim also often described this mechanism in electrical terms similar to Zola's (see Durkheim [1912Durkheim [ ] 1995. The other is "dynamogénique," which covers the positive, identity-building effect that religious ideas and forms of practice have on individuals (Baunvig 2014). Transforming Robert Codrington's (1830Codrington's ( -1922 emic description of the Melanesian idea of force demonstrations condensed in the concept of "mana" (Codrington 1891), Hubert and Mauss expanded it to an etic category encompassing ideas about the power or "magical potential" of certain objects, individuals, and actions (Tybjerg 2007: 170;Sørensen 2021).…”