Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life

Newly Translated By Karen E. Fields

By: Emile Durkheim

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"Karen Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students. In addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction. The publication of this translation is an occasion for general celebration, for a veritable 'collective effervescence.'

-- Robert N. Bellah "Co-author of "Habits of the Heart, " and editor of "Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society"

"This superb new translation finally allows non-French speaking American readers fully to appreciate Durkheim's genius. It is a labor of love for which all scholars must be grateful."

--Lewis A. Coser

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Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Emile Durkheim
Map
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Introduction	p. 3
A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion	p. 25
The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: I. Animism	p. 47
The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: II. Naturism	p. 63
Totemism as Elementary Religion: Historical Review of the Question, Method of Treating It	p. 76
Central Totemic Beliefs: I. The Totem as Name and Emblem	p. 87
Central Totemic Beliefs: II. The Totemic Animal and Man	p. 101
Central Totemic Beliefs: III. The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Genus	p. 109
Central Totemic Beliefs: IV. The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem	p. 121
The Origins of These Beliefs: I. A Critical Examination of the Theories	p. 126
The Origins of These Beliefs: II. The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force	p. 140
The Origins of These Beliefs: III. The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana	p. 153
The Notion of Soul	p. 183
The Notion of Spirits and Gods	p. 203
The Negative Cult and its Functions: Ascetic Rites	p. 221
The Positive Cult: I. The Element of Sacrifice	p. 243
The Positive Cult: II. Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality	p. 261
The Positive Cult: III. Representative of Commemorative Rites	p. 276
Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred	p. 289
Conclusion	p. 310
Select List of Anthropologists and Ethnologists who Informed Durkheim's Work	p. 344
Explanatory Notes	p. 345
Index	p. 351
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Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life

Newly Translated By Karen E. Fields

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