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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Emile Durkheim, Joseph Ward Swain (Translator), Joseph Ward Swain
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Synopsis

A founder of modern sociology examines animism, naturism, totemism, myth, and ritual in this 1912 classic, which traces the source of religion and morality to a collective consciousness.

About the Author, Emile Durkheim


Carol Cosman has translated works by Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Balzac and Yasmina Reza Mark Cladis is the author of A Communitarian Defense of Liberalim: Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory (Stanford, 1992) and editor of Durkheim and Foucault: Perspectives on Education and Punishment (1999).

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Book Details

Published
April 1, 2008
Publisher
Dover Publications
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780486454566

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