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Émile Durkheim

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Born January 1, 1858
Died January 1, 1917 (59 years old)
Épinal, France
Also known as: Emile Durkheim, Émile Durkheim
45 books
4.0 (8)
309 readers

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Le suicide

3.7 (3)
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Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

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21

"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 an avenue 'to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity'. The need and capacity of men and women to relate socially lies at the heart of Durkheim's exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe."--BOOK JACKET.