The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim

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Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction Subject of Our Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge
  3. Chapter I. Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion
  4. Chapter II. Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion I.— Animism
  5. Chapter III. Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion—continued II.— Naturism
  6. Chapter IV. Totemism as an Elementary Religion History of the Question.—Method of Treating it
  7. Chapter I. Totemic Beliefs The Totem as Name and as Emblem
  8. Chapter II. Totemic Beliefs—continued The Totemic Animal and Man
  9. Chapter III. Totemic Beliefs—continued The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class
  10. Chapter IV. Totemic Beliefs—end The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem
  11. Chapter V. Origins of These Beliefs Critical Examination of Preceding Theories
  12. Chapter VI. Origins of These Beliefs—continued The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force
  13. Chapter VII. Origins of These Beliefs—end Origin of the Idea of the Totemic Principle or Mana
  14. Chapter VIII. The Idea of the Soul
  15. Chapter IX. The Idea of Spirits and Gods
  16. Chapter I. The Negative Cult and Its Functions the Ascetic Rites
  17. Chapter II. The Positive Cult I.— The Elements of the Sacrifice
  18. Chapter III. The Positive Cult—continued II.— Imitative Rites and the Principle of Causality
  19. Chapter IV. The Positive Cult—continued III.— Representative or Commemorative Rites
  20. Chapter V. Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of Sacredness
  21. Conclusion

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