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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Émile Durkheim; Mark S. Cladis; Carol Cosman is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Elementary Forms of Religious Life about?
'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), Émile 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 sho
Who reads The Elementary Forms of Religious Life?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Émile Durkheim; Mark S. Cladis; Carol Cosman
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192637994
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Fiction, Religious Studies
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (95 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. [Les Formes Élémentaires de la Vie Religieuse, Le Systeme Totémique en Australie]. Transl. by Joseph Ward Swain. Int (1976)
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1995)
- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1995)
- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1965)
- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life : a Study in Religious Sociology (1965)
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