Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

a study in religious sociology.

by Émile Durkheim

1915 456 pages eng

"In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. Aboriginal religion was …