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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Fundamentals of religion.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Religion and Society

Religions differ enormously in gods, scriptures and rites, yet sociology looks for the elements common to all. Émile Durkheim (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912) 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…

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