Zetech University Library - Online Catalog

Mobile: +254-705278678

Whatsapp: +254-706622557

Feedback/Complaints/Suggestions

library@zetech.ac.ke

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary

The elementary forms of religious life / Emile Durkheim ; translated by Carol Cosman ; abridged with an introduction and notes by Mark S. Cladis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: xli, 358 p. : maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0192832557 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 21
LOC classification:
  • GN470 .D87 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. 1. A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion. 2. The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: I. Animism. 3. The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: II. Naturism. 4. Totemism as Elementary Religion: Historical Review of the Question, Method of Treating It. 1. Central Totemic Beliefs: I. The Totem as Name and Emblem. 2. Central Totemic Beliefs: II. The Totemic Animal and Man. 3. Central Totemic Beliefs: III. The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Genus. 4. Central Totemic Beliefs: IV. The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem. 5. The Origins of These Beliefs: I.A Critical Examination of the Theories. 6. The Origins of These Beliefs: II. The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force. 7. The Origins of These Beliefs: III. The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana. 8. The Notion of Soul. 9. The Notion of Spirits and Gods. 1. The Negative Cult and its Functions: Ascetic Rites. 2. The Positive Cult: I. The Element of Sacrifice. 3. The Positive Cult: II. Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality. 4. The Positive Cult: III. Representative of Commemorative Rites. 5. Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred App. Select List of Anthropologists and Ethnologists who Informed Durkheim's Work
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Zetech Library - Mang'u General Stacks Non-fiction GN470 .D87 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Z011145

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. 1. A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion. 2. The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: I. Animism. 3. The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: II. Naturism. 4. Totemism as Elementary Religion: Historical Review of the Question, Method of Treating It. 1. Central Totemic Beliefs: I. The Totem as Name and Emblem. 2. Central Totemic Beliefs: II. The Totemic Animal and Man. 3. Central Totemic Beliefs: III. The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Genus. 4. Central Totemic Beliefs: IV. The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem. 5. The Origins of These Beliefs: I.A Critical Examination of the Theories. 6. The Origins of These Beliefs: II. The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force. 7. The Origins of These Beliefs: III. The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana. 8. The Notion of Soul. 9. The Notion of Spirits and Gods. 1. The Negative Cult and its Functions: Ascetic Rites. 2. The Positive Cult: I. The Element of Sacrifice. 3. The Positive Cult: II. Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality. 4. The Positive Cult: III. Representative of Commemorative Rites. 5. Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred
App. Select List of Anthropologists and Ethnologists who Informed Durkheim's Work

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.