The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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1. EMILE DURKHEIM The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life2. INTRODUCTION SUBJECT OF OUR STUDY: RELIGIOUS SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE3. CHAPTER I DEFINITION OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA AND OF RELIGION[25]4. CHAPTER II LEADING CONCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY RELIGION I.—Animism5. CHAPTER III LEADING CONCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY RELIGION—continued II.—Naturism6. CHAPTER IV TOTEMISM AS AN ELEMENTARY RELIGION History of the Question.—Method of Treating it7. CHAPTER I TOTEMIC BELIEFS The Totem as Name and as Emblem8. CHAPTER II TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Totemic Animal and Man9. CHAPTER III TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class10. CHAPTER IV TOTEMIC BELIEFS—end The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem11. CHAPTER V ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS Critical Examination of Preceding Theories12. CHAPTER VI ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—continued The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force13. CHAPTER VII ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—end Origin of the Idea of the Totemic Principle or Mana14. CHAPTER VIII THE IDEA OF THE SOUL15. CHAPTER IX THE IDEA OF SPIRITS AND GODS16. CHAPTER I THE NEGATIVE CULT AND ITS FUNCTIONS THE ASCETIC RITES17. CHAPTER II THE POSITIVE CULT I.—The Elements of the Sacrifice18. CHAPTER III THE POSITIVE CULT—continued II.—Imitative Rites and the Principle of Causality19. CHAPTER IV THE POSITIVE CULT—continued III.—Representative or Commemorative Rites20. CHAPTER V PIACULAR RITES AND THE AMBIGUITY OF THE NOTION OF SACREDNESS21. CONCLUSION22. INDEX