Les conceptions de l’après-mort chez les jeunes Belges francophones en Wallonie et à Bruxelles : transactions symboliques et recompositions de l’objet « religion »

Bermejo, José Juan Osés

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“…In the absence of certainty about the afterlife, which has become somewhat hypothetical for most modern minds, and in a context of crisis in terms of the traditional meaning-creating institutions, new funerary devices focus on community celebration. They are targeted more towards the world of the living, towards life on Earth in the absence of certain life beyond, by honoring the memory of the deceased, and are an invitation to collectively mourn (Hiernaux andServais, 2001, 2003;Osés Bermejo, 2013). The disappearance of the body (viz.…”

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Funerals in the ‘World of Warcraft’: Religion, polemic, and styles of play in a videogame universe

Servais

2015

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This article discusses 'World of Warcraft' (WoW), one of the most popular of today's 'massively multiplayer online role playing games' (MMORPG). The author focuses on the funeral ceremonies organized by players within the game. The first section gives a brief outline of the different perspectives in current research relative to the study of religion on the internet and particularly in digital universes. The second contains the discussion on cyber funerals in WoW and the different dimensions of such ceremonies. In particular, the author examines the controversy surrounding a ceremony honoring a deceased player, which was unexpectedly and violently interrupted by other players. In the third and final part, the author considers the anthropological issues that this case raises. RésuméCet article s'intéresse à « World of Warcraft » (WoW), l'un des plus populaires des « massively multiplayer online role playing games » (MMORPG). L'auteur centre ses analyses sur les cérémonies funéraires organisées à l'intérieur du jeu par les joueurs. La première partie donne un bref aperçu des différents points de vue de la recherche actuelle au sujet de la religion sur Internet et en particulier dans les univers numériques. Deuxièmement, l'auteur focalise sa discussion sur des cyber-rituels dans WoW et

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Funerals in the ‘World of Warcraft’: Religion, polemic, and styles of play in a videogame universe

Servais

2015

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“…Therefore, the examination of Durkheim's sociology in the light of the postcolonial critique of sociology's Eurocentrism constitutes a relevant pending task. This article aims to take up this challenge, building profitably on previous contributions in which the re-elaboration of Durkheim's legacy has been shown to nourish sociological analyses sensitive to power and domination (Osés, 2012(Osés, , 2013. Is Durkheim's sociology Eurocentric in the ways denounced by postcolonialism?…”

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Durkheim, Religion, and the Postcolonial Critique of Sociology’s Eurocentrism

Bermejo

2023

Journal of Classical Sociology

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In light of the postcolonial critique of Eurocentrism, the epistemological foundations of sociology and the legacies of classical sociologists have certainly become controversial. Postcolonial critiques of sociology’s Eurocentrism have denounced the “parochial” nature and limitations of the theoretical contributions left by Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, the reductive and stereotyping orientation of the “primitivist” and/or “orientalist” representations of non-Western peoples that can be identified in their work, and the incomplete and misleading accounts of the Western processes of modernization that we have inherited from them, which fail to fully address and satisfactorily account for the realities of modern Western forms of colonialism and imperialism. However, the nature and consequences of Durkheim’s specific sociological Eurocentrism raise opposing views within postcolonialism. This article aims to evaluate the pertinence of the divergent and sometimes contradictory postcolonial appraisals of Durkheim’s Eurocentrism by focusing particularly on the controversies generated by his sociological approach to religion. Placing Durkheim’s sociological project within both the academic field and the socio-political context in which it took shape, this article highlights the shifting relevance and the implications of his evolving sociological approach to this object of study in his science of morals. Although it is not exempt from inconsistencies and Eurocentric assumptions, Durkheim’s sociological approach to religion leaves an invaluable legacy for a non-dualistic sociological understanding of the rituals through which humans (re)create their social identities and their forms of belonging and solidarity. In line with the priorities of some postcolonial agendas, it can fully reveal its explanatory potential in the sociological investigation of modern and contemporary interethnic and racial conflicts and forms of colonialism and neo-colonialism.

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Les conceptions de l’après-mort chez les jeunes Belges francophones en Wallonie et à Bruxelles : transactions symboliques et recompositions de l’objet « religion »

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Funerals in the ‘World of Warcraft’: Religion, polemic, and styles of play in a videogame universe

Funerals in the ‘World of Warcraft’: Religion, polemic, and styles of play in a videogame universe

Durkheim, Religion, and the Postcolonial Critique of Sociology’s Eurocentrism

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