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Is the Durkheimian concept of religion entirely different from that of his predecessors? Why and how?

  • UPSC 1989
  • Sociological Thinkers

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim defined religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things … which unite into one single moral community called a Church all those who adhere to them. The definition marks a sharp break in how religion is explained, but it borrows…

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