The elementary forms of religious life /
Religious life
Emile Durkheim ; translated and with an introduction by Karen E. Fields.
- lxiii, 464 pages : map ; 25 cm
Ethnographic map of Australia on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Emile Durkheim -- Map -- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -- Introduction -- A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion -- The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: I. Animism -- The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: II. Naturism -- Totemism as Elementary Religion: Historical Review of the Question, Method of Treating It -- Central Totemic Beliefs: I. The Totem as Name and Emblem -- Central Totemic Beliefs: II. The Totemic Animal and Man -- Central Totemic Beliefs: III. The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Genus -- Central Totemic Beliefs: IV. The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem -- The Origins of These Beliefs: I. A Critical Examination of the Theories -- The Origins of These Beliefs: II. The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force -- The Origins of These Beliefs: III. The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana -- The Notion of Soul -- The Notion of Spirits and Gods -- The Negative Cult and its Functions: Ascetic Rites -- The Positive Cult: I. The Element of Sacrifice -- The Positive Cult: II. Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality -- The Positive Cult: III. Representative of Commemorative Rites -- Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred -- Conclusion -- Select List of Anthropologists and Ethnologists who Informed Durkheim's Work -- Explanatory Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. App.