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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

By Émile Durkheim

2019-10-16 20:07:56

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (French: Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse), published by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. Durkheim attributes the development ... Read more
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (French: Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse), published by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. Durkheim attributes the development of religion to the emotional security attained through communal living. His study of totemic societies in Australia led to the conclusion that the animal or plant that each clan worshipped as a sacred power was in fact that society itself. Halfway through the text, Durkheim writes: "So if [the totem animal] is at once the symbol of the god and of the society, is that not because the god and the society are only one?" Less

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File size574.624 KB
Print pages480
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-03-07
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0199540129
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Émile Durkheim
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David Émile Durkheim (15 April 1858 – 15 Nov 1917) was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and, with Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal arc...

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