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Elaborate Emile Durkheim’s analysis of the Elementary Forms of Religious Life and role of religion in society. How does he explain existence of religion in modern industrial societies?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Sociological Thinkers

Émile Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) asked two questions. The first was what religion essentially is, answered through Australian totemism. The second was what can hold modern society together once traditional faith declines. If religion is society worshipping itself, it cannot simply disappear.

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