| Clement Charles Julian Webb - Group theory - 1916 - 216 pages
...p. 4. * M. Durkheim's later definition of religion runs thus (Elementary Forms, Eng. tr., p. 47) : " A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...community called a Church all those who adhere to them" This new definition seems to be exposed, as regards the explanation of " sacred," to the charge of... | |
| Theology - 1917 - 700 pages
...terms which are translated well enough by the words profane and sacred" (profane, sacr6). Granting this, "a religion is a unified system of beliefs and...community called a church all those who adhere to them." This definition is largely objective. Rites are necessary as well as beliefs, and these beliefs are... | |
| Religion - 1917 - 694 pages
...definite practices relating to objects given in these beliefs " (p. 47) ; or, in a more modified form, " A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...community called a Church all those who adhere to them " (p. 60). The author shows that not all obligatory beliefs are religious, and that all practices are... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 464 pages
...these two essential ele-« ments of religion, Durkheim gives us the following definition (p. 47) : "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...community called a church, all those who adhere to them." With this preliminary definition Durkheim next offers a trenchant criticism of two traditional conceptions... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 420 pages
...Combining these two essential elements of religion, Durkheim gives us the following definition (p. 47): "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...community called a church, all those who adhere to them." With this preliminary definition Durkheim next offers a trenchant criticism of two traditional conceptions... | |
| Morris Wolf - History - 1919 - 128 pages
...After two score pages of discussion concerning the nature of religion the following is set down : " A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." Durkheim's object is to determine the origin and nature of religion. To support the conclusions he... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 944 pages
...Wright). Similarly, but with more emphasis on beliefs and institutions, Durkheim defines a religion as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative...community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." While agreement upon a psychological definition thus has not yet been achieved, it is at any rate generally... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 1102 pages
...Wright). Similarly, but with more emphasis on beliefs and institutions, Durkheim defines a religion as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative...community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." While agreement upon a psychological definition thus has not yet been achieved, it is at any rate generally... | |
| Economics - 1921 - 614 pages
...things profane, the former being superior in dignity and power to the latter. Religion, therefore, is a " unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, uniting into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them."3 There is,... | |
| Eric Strickland Waterhouse - Experience (Religion) - 1923 - 296 pages
...select, however, Durkheim as most definitely representative of this view. ' A religion,' he says, ' is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative...is to say, things set apart and forbidden, beliefs 1 Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 508. and practices which unite into one single moral community... | |
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