The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

4 by Émile Durkheim, Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917, Swain, Joseph Ward, 1891-

Chapter 22: CHAPTER IV

Chapter 22: CHAPTER IV

THE POSITIVE CULT--(_continued_) III.--_Representative or Commemorative Rites_ I.--Representative rites with physical efficacy--Their relations with the ceremonies already described--Their action is wholly moral 371 II.--Representative rites without physical efficacy--They confirm the preceding results--The element of recreation in religion: its importance; its reason for existence--The idea of a feast 376 III.--Ambiguity of function in the various ceremonies studied; they substitute themselves for each other--How this ambiguity confirms the theory proposed 383
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