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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. Elementary forms of religious life (OCoLC)1231597142 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Émile Durkheim; Karen E Fields |
ISBN: | 0029079365 9780029079362 0029079373 9780029079379 |
OCLC Number: | 31605085 |
Language Note: | Translated into English from original French. |
Notes: | Originally published by F. Alcan in 1912. Ethnographic map of Australia on endpapers. Translation of: Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. |
Description: | lxiii, 464 pages : map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Translator's introduction: Religion as an eminently social thing -- Introduction: Subject of the study: religious sociology and the theory of knowledge -- Book one: Preliminary questions. Definition of religious phenomena and of religion ; The leading conceptions of the elementary religion: animism ; The leading conceptions of the elementary religion (continuation): naturism ; Totemism as elementary religion: review of the question ; method of treating it -- Book two: The elementary beliefs. The principal totemic beliefs: the totem as name and as emblem ; The principal totemic beliefs (continued): the totemic animal and man ; The principal totemic beliefs (continued): the cosmological system of totemism and the notion of kind ; The principal totemic beliefs (end): the individual totem and the sexual totem ; Origins of these beliefs: critical examination of the theories ; Origins of these beliefs (continued): the notion of totemic principle, or mana, and the idea of force ; Origins of these beliefs (conclusion): origin of the notion of totemic principle, or mana ; The notion of soul ; The notion of spirits and gods -- Book III. The principal modes of ritual conduct. The negative cult and its functions: the ascetic rites ; The positive cult: the elements of the sacrifice ; The positive cult (continuation): mimetic rites and the principle of causality ; The positive cult (continuation): representative or commemorative rites ; The piacular rites and the ambiguity of the notion of the sacred. |
Other Titles: | Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. Religious life |
Responsibility: | Emile Durkheim ; translated and with an introduction by Karen E. Fields. |
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Abstract:
In this work, first published in 1912, Emile Durkheim examines a wide range of religious topics including: forms of animism, naturism, and totemism; fundamental concepts such as the soul, spirits and gods; and cults and rites.
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