Book · 1912 · Nonfiction

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Name: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Author: Emile Durkheim

Oxford University Press, USA · 416 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Religion is society worshiping itself. Durkheim builds the case from Australian Aboriginal totemism: a clan gathers, works itself into collective frenzy, feels a force greater than any member, and calls it a god.

Genre

Sociology Religion

Subject

Religion Ritual Society Totemism

Time

1912

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