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The elementary forms of religious life, Emile Durkheim ; translated and with an introduction by Karen E. Fields

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The elementary forms of religious life

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Emile Durkheim ; translated and with an introduction by Karen E. Fields

Translator's Introduction: Religion as an Eminently Social Thing -- Introduction: Subject of the Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge -- Bk. 1. Preliminary Questions -- Ch. 1. Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion -- Ch. 2. The Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion: Animism -- Ch. 3. The Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion (Continuation): Naturism -- Ch. 4. Totemism as Elementary Religion: Review of the Question. Method of Treating It -- Bk. 2. The Elementary Beliefs -- Ch. 1. The Principal Totemic Beliefs: The Totem as Name and as Emblem -- Ch. 2. The Principal Totemic Beliefs (Continued): The Totemic Animal and Man -- Ch. 3. The Principal Totemic Beliefs (Continued): The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Kind -- Ch. 4. The Principal Totemic Beliefs (End): The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem -- Ch. 5. Origins of These Beliefs: Critical Examination of the Theories -- Ch. 6. Origins of These Beliefs (Continued): The Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force -- Ch. 7. Origins of These Beliefs (Conclusion): Origin of the Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana -- Ch. 8. The Notion of Soul -- Ch. 9. The Notion of Spirits and Gods -- Bk. III. The Principal Modes of Ritual Conduct -- Ch. 1. The Negative Cult and Its Functions: The Ascetic Rites -- Ch. 2. The Positive Cult: The Elements of the Sacrifice -- Ch. 3. The Positive Cult (Continuation): Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality -- Ch. 4. The Positive Cult (Continuation): Representative or Commemorative Rites -- Ch. 5. The Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred

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