Social Origins Of Religion
by Roger Bastide
University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-8166-3248-0 | Paper: 978-0-8166-3249-7
Library of Congress Classification BL60.B313 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 210
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Contents Foreword James L. Peacock vi Preface xviii Introduction: The Object, Limits, and Method of the Sociology of Religion xix Part I. The Sphere of the Sacred 1. Definition of Religion 3 2. Magic 7 Part II. Social Elements of Religious Life 3. Representational Elements 28 4. Prohibitions: Relations between Religion and Morality 52 5. Driving Elements: Rituals 66 6. Organization of Religion 89 Part III. Religious Systems 7. Geographical Conditions of Religious Life 97 8. Social Conditions of Religious Life 105 9. Relations among Religious Systems 114 10. Relations between Religious Systems and Other Social Systems Part IV. The Origin and Evolution of Religions 11. Theories 132 12. Historical and Ethnographic Data 145 13. The Laws of the Evolution of Religion 158 Conclusion 166 Notes 167 Bibliography 168 Index 175
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Religion and sociology
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