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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268860 Title: The elementary forms of the religious life. Author: Émile Durkheim Publisher: New York, Free Press [1965, ©1915] ISBN/ISSN: 0029080002 9780029080009 OCLC:268860

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The elementary forms of the religious life.

Author:	Émile Durkheim
Publisher:	New York, Free Press [1965, ©1915]
Series:	Free Press paperbacks
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Elementary forms of the religious life. New York, Free Press [1965, c1915] (OCoLC)610153537
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Émile Durkheim Find more information about:
ISBN:	0029080002 9780029080009
OCLC Number:	268860
Description:	507 p. 21 cm.
Contents:	Introduction/Subject of our study: Religious sociology and the theory of knowledge -- Book 1: Preliminary questions -- 1. Definition of religious phenomena and religion -- 2. Leading conceptions of the elementary religion -- Animism -- Naturism -- Totemism as an elementary religion -- Book 2: The elementary beliefs -- 1. Totemic beliefs: the totem as name and as emblem -- 2. Totemic beliefs: The totemic animal and man -- 3. Totemic beliefs: The cosmological system of totemism and the idea of class -- 4. Totemic beliefs: The individual totem and the sexual totem -- 5. Origins of these beliefs -- 6. Origins of these beliefs: The notion of totemic principle, or mana, and the idea of force -- 7. Origins of these beliefs: Origin of the idea of the totemic principle or mana -- 8. The idea of the soul -- 9. The idea of spirits and gods -- Book 3: The principal ritual attitudes -- 1. The negative cult and its functions: the ascetic rites -- 2. The positive cult: The elements of sacrifice -- 3. The positive cult: Imitative rites and the principle of causality -- 4. The positive cult: Representative or commemorative rites -- 5. Piacular rites and the ambiguity of the notions of sacredness -- Conclusion.
Series Title:	Free Press paperbacks
Other Titles:	Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.
Responsibility:	Translated from the French by Joseph Ward Swain.

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