The elementary forms of religious life /
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translation of: Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. |
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New York :
Free Press,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- Translator's Introduction: Religion as an Eminently Social Thing
- Introduction: Subject of the Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge
- Bk. 1. Preliminary Questions
- Ch. 1. Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion
- Ch. 2. The Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion: Animism
- Ch. 3. The Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion (Continuation): Naturism
- Ch. 4. Totemism as Elementary Religion: Review of the Question. Method of Treating It
- Bk. 2. The Elementary Beliefs
- Ch. 1. The Principal Totemic Beliefs: The Totem as Name and as Emblem
- Ch. 2. The Principal Totemic Beliefs (Continued): The Totemic Animal and Man
- Ch. 3. The Principal Totemic Beliefs (Continued): The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Kind
- Ch. 4. The Principal Totemic Beliefs (End): The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem
- Ch. 5. Origins of These Beliefs: Critical Examination of the Theories
- Ch. 6. Origins of These Beliefs (Continued): The Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force
- Ch. 7. Origins of These Beliefs (Conclusion): Origin of the Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana
- Ch. 8. The Notion of Soul
- Ch. 9. The Notion of Spirits and Gods
- Bk. III. The Principal Modes of Ritual Conduct
- Ch. 1. The Negative Cult and Its Functions: The Ascetic Rites
- Ch. 2. The Positive Cult: The Elements of the Sacrifice
- Ch. 3. The Positive Cult (Continuation): Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality
- Ch. 4. The Positive Cult (Continuation): Representative or Commemorative Rites
- Ch. 5. The Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred.