ABSTRACT
Introduction This chapter builds on the previous one by examining how Durkheim’s Moral Education extends his insights on the central relation between religion, morality and emotion in social life.1 A contemporary re-reading of the lectures that make-up Moral Education is especially important given the general lack of attention shown towards it in the sociological community over the years. As Pickering and Walford (1998) note, Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method (1895) and Suicide (1897) have been far more prominent among teachers and students than Moral Education (Pickering and Walford, 1998, p. 1).
