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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

by Emile Durkheim, Karen Fields (Translator)

About this title: 'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. Aboriginal religion was an avenue 'to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity'. The need and capacity of men and women ... read more

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Nov 7, 2009
By Vern, The United States

"very interesting book...in the book he essentially uses a case study of an aboriginal tribe in the Australia area to identify the core components of religion and establish some principles for the "scientific" positivist study of religion..."

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Sep 30, 2009
By Maughn, Washington, UT

"I learned so much from this 1912 classic sociological treatment of religion; as the excellent introduction explains, some of the data Durkheim used - about Australian totemism - is no longer considered reliable, but his analysis of the nature and the meaning of religious belief and practice is still illuminating."

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Jul 19, 2009
By Sara, The United States

"This book was very convoluted, and of course built off of a basis of examining the religions of "primitive" cultures. Totemism makes some sense, sometimes, but not in the ways he intends and I just overall disagree and didn't find the read very useful. Oh, this was for Theory of Religion."

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Mar 6, 2009
By Mike, Middletown, CT

"This book attempts to examine the religious forms and functions in what he believed to the simplest religion in the world: Totemism of the Austrialian Aboriginal Tribes. His goal was to clearly define what religion was, and was not, and attempt to formulate its role in the society, as a way to maybe create a hypothesis about the more 'complex' religions.

Though many very interesting things where said about the structure of society and the development of knowledge and religion - one aspect of this book I felt was important was his understanding of the relation between science, religion, and knowledge.

What it is interesting is how his conclusion is worlds apart from, say, Richard Dawkins while he is as equally committed atheist. In part, because he does not dismiss the 'sensual experience' of believers, but dismisses their belief - he is able to pick apart the conflict between 'verifiable' science and 'speculative' religion of the past."

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