TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durkheim,Émile
AU  - Cosman,Carol
AU  - Cladis,Mark Sydney
ED  - Oxford University Press.
TI  - The elementary forms of religious life
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780199540129
AV  - GN470 .D813 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Religion
KW  - Totemism
KW  - Cults
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- A definition of the religious phenomenon and of religion; -- The leading conceptions of elementary religion: Animism; -- The leading conceptions of elementary religion: Naturism; -- Totemism as elementary religion: historical review of the question. Method of teaching it; -- Central totemic beliefs: The totem as name and emblem; -- Central totemic beliefs: The totemic animal and man; -- Central totemic beliefs: The cosmological system of totemism and the notion of genus; -- Central totemic beliefs: The individual totem and the sexual totem; -- The origins of these beliefs: A critical examination of the theories; -- The origins of these beliefs: The notionof the totemic principle or Mana, and the idea of force; -- The origins of these beliefs: The genesis of the notion of the toemic principle or Mana; -- The notion of soul; -- The notionof spirits and gods; -- The negative cult and its functions: Ascetic rites; -- The positive cult: The elements of sacrifice; -- The positive cult: Mimetic rites and the principle of causality; -- The positive cult: Representative or commemorative rites; -- Piacular rites and the ambiguity of the notion of the sacred
ER  -