TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durkheim,Émile
AU  - Swain,Joseph Ward
TI  - The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
AV  - GN 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Religion -- Philosophy
KW  - Cults
KW  - Totemism
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N2  - "The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life" by Émile Durkheim is a book published in 1912 that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. Durkheim argues that religious beliefs emerge from communal living and emotional bonds within society. Through studying totemic societies in Australia, he proposes that sacred symbols actually represent society itself. Durkheim identifies the concept of the sacred as the unifying element across all religions, defining religion as a system of beliefs and practices that unite communities around things set apart as forbidden. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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ER  -