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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim

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  1. 1Introduction — Subject of Our Study: Religious Sociology and the Th…
  2. 2Book I — Preliminary Questions
  3. 3Chapter II — Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion I — Ani…
  4. 4Chapter III — Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion — Cont…
  5. 5Chapter IV — Totemism as an Elementary Religion — History of the Qu…
  6. 6Book II — The Elementary Beliefs
  7. 7Chapter II — Totemic Beliefs — Continued — The Totemic Animal and Man
  8. 8Chapter III — Totemic Beliefs — Continued — The Cosmological System…
  9. 9Chapter IV — Totemic Beliefs — End — The Individual Totem and the S…
  10. 10Chapter V — Origins of These Beliefs — Critical Examination of Prec…
  11. 11Chapter VI — Origins of These Beliefs — Continued — The Notion of t…
  12. 12Chapter VII — Origins of These Beliefs — End — Origin of the Idea o…
  13. 13Chapter VIII — The Idea of the Soul
  14. 14Chapter IX — The Idea of Spirits and Gods
  15. 15Book III — The Principal Ritual Attitudes
  16. 16Chapter II — The Positive Cult — I — The Elements of the Sacrifice
  17. 17Chapter III — The Positive Cult — Continued — II — Imitative Rites…
  18. 18Chapter IV — The Positive Cult — Continued — III — Representative o…
  19. 19Chapter V — Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of Sacre…
  20. 20Conclusion

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