The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, a Study in Religious Sociology (1915)

by Emile Durkheim

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IN 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 fulfills 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.
  • ISBN10 0557799805
  • ISBN13 9780557799800
  • Publish Date 4 November 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 April 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format eBook
  • Language English