The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Language: English

Pages: 464

ISBN: 0029079373

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"Karen Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students. In addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction. The publication of this translation is an occasion for general celebration, for a veritable 'collective effervescence.'
-- Robert N. Bellah Co-author of Habits of the Heart, and editor of Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society
"This superb new translation finally allows non-French speaking American readers fully to appreciate Durkheim's genius. It is a labor of love for which all scholars must be grateful."
--Lewis A. Coser

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natural forces, t h e n h o w i t c o u l d have s u r v i v e d is h a r d to see, f o r i t expresses t h e m mistakenly. T h e alleged dist i n c t i o n b e t w e e n r e l i g i o n and m y t h o l o g y . 76 I I I . • N a t u r i s m does n o t e x p l a i n t h e d i v i s i o n o f things i n t o sacred a n d p r o fane. 81 Contents v C h a p t e r F o u r : T o t e m i s m as E l e m e n t a r y R e l i g i o n : Review of the Question. Method of Treating It I . • B r i e f h i s

s u p p o r t m a d e w i t h a stick a b o u t a f o o t l o n g o r w i t h a lance several meters h i g h that is cross-cut, sometimes b y o n e o r sometimes b y t w o p i e c e s . 132 I n the first case, i t resembles a cross. D i a g o - nally crossing the space b e t w e e n t h e arms o f the cross a n d the ends o f the central axis are ties m a d e w i t h e i t h e r h u m a n h a i r o r the f u r o f an o p o s s u m o r a b a n d i c o o t ; t h e y are pressed t i g h d y

y : w h a t is o b j e c t i v e a b o u t i t . R e l a tionships b e t w e e n t h e i n d i v i d u a l soul a n d t h e collective soul. • T h e n o t i o n o f soul is n o t c h r o n o l o g i c a l l y after that o f m a n a . 265 V • H y p o t h e s i s to e x p l a i n the b e l i e f i n life after death. 270 V I . • T h e idea o f soul a n d the idea o f person; i m p e r s o n a l elements o f p e r sonality. 272 Chapter N i n e : T h e N o t i o n o f Spirits and G o d s 276

difference between the role these notions play in intellectual life and that which falls to notions of kind and cause. (See on this point [Octave] Hamelin, Essai sur les éléments principaux de la représentation, Paris, Alcan [1907], pp. 63, 76.) Introduction 9 the m o s t universal properties o f things. T h e y are l i k e solid frames that c o n fine t h o u g h t . T h o u g h t does n o t seem t o be able t o break o u t o f t h e m w i t h o u t d e s t r o y i n g itself, since i t

v i l i z a t i o n . T h i s b y i t s e l f is e n o u g h t o m a k e us b e g i n t o see that any such organ i z a t i o n w o u l d have t o be collective. A n d i n d e e d , o b s e r v a t i o n establishes that these indispensable p o i n t s , i n reference t o w h i c h all things are arranged t e m porally, are taken f r o m social life. T h e d i v i s i o n i n t o days, weeks, m o n t h s , years, etc., corresponds t o the recurrence o f rites, festivals, a n d p u b l i c cere3

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