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The book offers an original interpretation of Emile Durkheim's theory and demonstrates its potential for the analysis of various lifeworld phenomena. In the first part, Durkheim's role in the context of an original unity of sociology of law, sociology of religion and social theory is illuminated and his original approach to the analysis of elementary forms of social life is reconstructed. The second part traces these elementary forms through examples such as commemorative rituals, the social construction of icons of beauty and the sacralisation of nature, among others. It thereby shows how stimulating reading this author can be for grasping social realities – and for understanding how his works have changed the cultural sociology of social life.

This volume explores the multi-layered connections between „community“ and „law“ and questions their relevance to burning issues in our societies today. After a look at the history of the concept of community and its links to law, the contributions deal with systematic connections between community formation and normativity. In addition, exemplary social communities and their legal systems are examined: for example, in analyses of forms of normative communitisation in the Islamic world, in pre-colonial Nigeria or in the European Union. Finally, new forms of legal community are discussed, which are linked to the transformation and crisis experiences of the present - for example, with the process of digitalisation, the approaching climate catastrophe or pandemics.

This volume shows the results a cultural studies perspective on the pandemic crisis may yield in the light of the law-as-culture paradigm. The diversity of the disciplines practiced at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Law as Culture" as well as the internationality of its fellows and fellow campaigners contribute to directing the normative and legal analysis developed at the Kolleg towards phenomena which at the same time provide us with a unique laboratory for the "condition humaine". Featuring contributions by, among others, Martin Albrow (London), Gianmaria Ajani (Turin), Upendra Baxi (Delhi), Pierre Brunet (Paris), Marta Bucholc (Warschau/Bonn), Jacques Commaille (Paris), Maurizio Ferraris (Turin/Paris), Thomas Dreier (Karlsruhe), Alexander Filippov (Moskau), Markus Gabriel (Bonn), Mariacarla Gadebusch-Bondio (Bonn), Peter Goodrich (New York/Abu Dhabi), Matthias Herdegen (Bonn), Richard Münch (Bamberg), Caroline Okumdi Muoghalu (Nigeria), Masahiro Noguchi (Tokio), Greta Olson (Gie€en), Hamadi Redissi (Tunis), Raja Sakrani (Bonn), Joachim Savelsberg (Minneapolis), Martin Schermaier (Bonn).

An dem in diesem Band vorgestellten Forschungsprojekt zur Frage der Bedeutung der Religionen für die Identitätsbildung haben sich Vertreter verschiedener Fachrichtungen beteiligt: Religionswissenschaftler, Theologen und Philosophen, Gesellschaftswissenschaftler und Mediziner. Alle ihre Beiträge zeichnen sich dadurch aus, daß sie von vornherein über die Identität versichernden Grenzen der jeweiligen Wissenschaftskulturen hinausgreifen. Die hier vorgelegten Studien betreffen einmal grundlegende Reflexionen zur Identitätsbestimmung, zum anderen beispielhaft bestimmte Religionen in ihren konkreten historischen Erscheinungsformen - insbesondere werden Probleme jüdisch-christlicher Identitätsbildung und Fragen religiöser Identitätsbildung in Asien untersucht.