The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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Introduction, Section I, "Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge"
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Introduction, Section II, "Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge"
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Book I, Chapter I, "Usefulness of a preliminary definition"
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Book I, Chapter I, Section I
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Book I, Chapter I, Section II
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Book I, Chapter I, Section III
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Book I, Chapter I, Section IV
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Book I, Chapter II, "I - Animism"
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Book I, Chapter II, Section I
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Book I, Chapter II, Section II
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Book I, Chapter II, Section III
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Book I, Chapter II, Section IV
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Book I, Chapter II, Section V
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Book I, Chapter III, "II - Naturism"
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Book I, Chapter III, Section I
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Book I, Chapter III, Section II
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Book I, Chapter III, Section III
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Book I, Chapter IV, Section I, "Totemism as an Elementary Religion"
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Book I, Chapter IV, Section II
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Book II, Chapter I, Section I, "The Totem as Name and as Emblem"
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Book II, Chapter I, Section II
12:06 -
Book II, Chapter I, Section III
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Book II, Chapter II, Section I, "The Totemic Animal and Man"
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Book II, Chapter II, Section II
15:36 -
Book II, Chapter III, Section I, "The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class"
11:49 -
Book II, Chapter III, Section II
9:59 -
Book II, Chapter III, Section III
18:30 -
Book II, Chapter IV, Section I, "The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem"
18:45 -
Book II, Chapter IV, Section II
5:21 -
Book II, Chapter V, Section I, "Critical Examination of Preceding Theories"
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Book II, Chapter V, Section II
27:02 -
Book II, Chapter V, Section III
13:05 -
Book II, Chapter V, Section IV
8:20 -
Book II, Chapter V, Section V
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Book II, Chapter VI, Section I, "The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force"
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Book II, Chapter VI, Section II
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Book II, Chapter VI, Section III
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Book II, Chapter VI, Section IV
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Book II, Chapter VII, Section I, "Origin of the Idea of the Totemic Principle or Mana"
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Book II, Chapter VII, Section II
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Book II, Chapter VII, Section III
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Book II, Chapter VII, Section IV
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Book II, Chapter VII, Section V
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Book II, Chapter VII, Section VI
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Book II, Chapter VIII, Section I, "The Idea of the Soul"
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Book II, Chapter VIII, Section II
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Book II, Chapter VIII, Section III
13:44 -
Book II, Chapter VIII, Section IV
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Book II, Chapter VIII, Section V
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Book II, Chapter VIII, Section VI
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Book II, Chapter IX, Section I, "The Idea of Spirits and Gods"
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Book II, Chapter IX, Section II
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Book II, Chapter IX, Section III
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Book II, Chapter IX, Section IV
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Book II, Chapter IX, Section V
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Book III, Chapter I, Section I, "The Negative Cult and its Functions, The Ascetic Rites"
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Book III, Chapter I, Section II
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Book III, Chapter I, Section III
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Book III, Chapter I, Section IV
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Book III, Chapter II, "I - The Elements of Sacrifice"
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Book III, Chapter II, Section I
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Book III, Chapter II, Section II
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Book III, Chapter II, Section III
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Book III, Chapter II, Section IV
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Book III, Chapter II, Section V
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Book III, Chapter III, Section I, "The Positive Cult, I. The Elements of Sacrifice"
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Book III, Chapter III, Section II
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Book III, Chapter III, Section III
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Book III, Chapter IV, Section I, "The Positive Cult, II. Imitative Rites and the Principle of Causality"
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Book III, Chapter IV, Section II
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Book III, Chapter IV, Section III
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Book III, Chapter V, "Definition of the piacular rite"
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Book III, Chapter V, Section I
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Book III, Chapter V, Section II
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Book III, Chapter V, Section III
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Book III, Chapter V, Section IV
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Conclusion, "To what extent the results obtained may be generalized"
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Conclusion, Section I
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Conclusion, Section II
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Conclusion, Section III
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Conclusion, Section IV
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Émile Durkheim sets out to find what religion looks like in its simplest form, and what that tells us about the societies that practise it. He begins by testing the usual definitions, those built on the supernatural or on belief in a god, and sets them aside in favour of a split between things sacred and things ordinary.
The heart of the book is the clan totemism of Australian peoples, drawn from the reports of observers of his day: totems as names and emblems, food taboos, initiation rites, and ideas of the soul, of spirits and of great gods. Durkheim argues that such beliefs express the life of the group itself.
This English translation by Joseph Ward Swain dates from 1915. It is dense, footnoted scholarship in sociology and the study of religion, and it suits readers who want to see how one of the founders of sociology reasoned from evidence to theory.
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