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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Durkheim, Émile; Swain, Joseph Ward

ISBN13: 9780486454566
ISBN10: 0486454568
eBook ISBN(s): 9780486120447
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2008-04-04
Publisher: Dover Publications

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In this 1912 classic, a founder of modern sociology examines animism, naturism, totemism, myth, and ritual. Durkheim maintains that the source of religion and morality lies in collective consciousness, rather than in individual minds. His intriguing views are still a topic of debate among sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians.

Table of Contents

Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge

Book I: Preliminary Questions

Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion

Leading Conceptions ofo the Elementary Religion

Totemism as an Elementary Religion

Book II: The Elementary Beliefs

Totemic Beliefs

Origins of these Beliefs

The Idea of the Soul

The Idea of Spirits and Gods

Book III: The Principal Ritual Attitudes

The Negative Cult and its Functions

The Positive Cult

Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of Sacredness

Conclusion

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