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Critically examine the relevance of Durkheim’s views on religion in contemporary society.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Sociological Thinkers

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim argued that religion divides the world into sacred and profane, that its real object is society itself, and that ritual renews social solidarity. He predicted not the end of religion but its transformation: "there is something eternal in religion".

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