宗教生活的基本形式

简介

Durkheim’s last major book (1912) uses ethnographic reports on Aboriginal Australians, above all Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen’s accounts of the Arrernte (Arunta), as a test case: in what he took to be the simplest known religion he hoped to find the elementary forms of all religion. He defines religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relating to sacred things that unites its adherents into a single moral community, a “church”. The totem is at once the emblem of the clan and a sacred object; in the “collective effervescence” of ritual gatherings people experience the power of society itself. Durkheim never visited Australia, and his evolutionary premise and use of sources have been much criticised.

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• 社会学方法的准则1895 · 埃米尔·涂尔干

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• 洁净与危险1966 · 玛丽·道格拉斯

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