The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology (Classic Reprint), by Emile Durkheim
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Excerpt from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious SociologyIn this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it. A religious system may be said to be the most primitive which we can observe when it fulfils the two following conditions: in the first place, when it is found in a society whose organization is surpassed by no others in simplicity; and secondly, when it is possible to explain it without making use of any element borrowed from a previous religion.We shall set ourselves to describe the organization of this system with all the exactness and fidelity that an ethnographer or an historian could give it. But our task will not be limited to that : sociology raises other problems than history or ethnography. It does not seek to know the passed forms of civilization with the sole end of knowing them and reconstructing them. But rather, like every positive _science, it has as its object the explanation of some actual reality which is near to us, and which consequently is capable of affecting our ideas and our acts : this reality is man, and more precisely, the man of to-day, for there is nothing which we are more interested in knowing. Then we are not going to study a very archaic religion simply for the pleasure of telling its peculiarities and its singularities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology (Classic Reprint), by Emile Durkheim- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
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- 474 pages
About the Author Emile Durkheim (1858 1917) was a French sociologist who formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. social reality as the grounding of religion By X. Zu The crux of Durkheim’s theorization of religion lies in his metaphysical breakthrough in identifying social reality as the ground of all religions, shattering the presumed dichotomies of the material vs. the imaginary and the body vs. the mind. Releasing studies of religion from the confine of pure ideas and the imaginations, Durkheim (echoing Marxist theory of practice and nodding to Kant's synthesis of Rationalism and Empiricism: "Concepts without percepts are empty; percepts without concepts are blind") brought us onto a new path of understanding religion by investigating how ideas connect to practices, how rites and rituals give rise to symbols, and how symbols structure human behaviors. Admittedly, Durkheim didn’t have the final words on the questions he raised one century ago. And yet, no scholars of religion after Durkheim can evade these questions. This is why Durkheim still matters today.To understand the formation and disintegration of social reality and the idealized social reality, Durkheim drew our attention to rites and rituals through his readings of totemism, concluding that social forces behind rites and rituals (in other words purposefully organized collective actions) engender the sacred and its symbolism in a society. Again, Durkheim, though hopeless wrong about many of the details, correctly identified crucial questions in understanding religion: the performative aspect of ritual (in the sense that rituals generate meaning instead of merely communicating information), the affective power of religious techniques, and the emotional labor inherent in religious practices. Today we continue to ask these questions with contemporary twists such as the role of media in forging religiosity, the cultural capital of religious symbols, and so on.Indeed, Durkheim’s theorization of religion is like Dürer's Rhinoceros: many of the details are dead wrong (seen from the vantage point of the present); and yet, no one can deny the brilliance shone through—thanks to Durkheim’s armchair anthropology (or thought experiments), social reality has become the “natural” category of analysis and one of the most powerful tools in investigating questions related to religions and religiosities.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Extraordinary contribution to the understanding of the religious phenomena By Latina This is a most read book to anyone interested in understanding the social roots of religion. Durkheim's definition of religion is not philosophical, but constructed through the massive ethnological and anthropological evidence of the most elemental forms of religious life found among Australia's indigenous tribes. I had struggle with the definition and the origin of religion for many years, until I read this wonderful book. Regardless of Durkheims' claims about the role of religion in society, which may be functional inside a group but dis-functional with respect to a larger globalized community, his theory for understanding the religious fact from a scientific perspective has more explanatory power than any other I have read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Highly recommended. By John An original (written in 1912) and exceptionally well thought out sociological concept on the origin of religious practices. It fits in well with current research into the origins of religion with respect to mind-body duality, evolution, symbolic thinking, and neurophysiology. I would have given it 5 stars except I think the 1995 translation by Karen Fields enhances the readability. Highly recommended.
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