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 · The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Author Émile Durkheim; ; Author: Émile Durkheim. Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks ISBN: Category: Religion Page: View: Download Now.  · 3 by Émile Durkheim; The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim. Download This eBook. Format Url Size; Read this book online: HTML: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life Language: English: LoC Class: GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology: Subject.  · The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Émile Durkheim Translated by Carol Cosman and Edited by Mark S. Cladis Oxford World's Classics. A new, lightly abridged edition provides an excellent introduction to Durkheim's ideas. Applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians.

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In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. 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. The form religion takes is the form of social life which echo in each other, correlating meaning and belief to law and order through rituals and religious institutions. Durkheim's notions in "Elementary Forms of Religious Life" were later further developed by Mary Douglas in " Purity and Danger " and her notions regarding ritual uncleanness or secular defilement.