REL 105 Lecture 4: Durkheim In-Class notes

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 105
• Professor: sumaikeuchi

Document Summary

Higher and lower form of religion: fundamentally, then there are no religions that are false. Everything fulfill given conditions of human existence, though in different ways. All religions fulfill human need and a desire to belong to society. Everything is social, all these time markers are made by socially customs and feelings. The larger collective is more important than the individual. A calendar, no matter how abstract and impersonal, can shape individual experience in an significant way. The social framework is indispensable for personal experience. No individual created these units of time: what makes religious thought distinctive according to durkheim, a. In the history of human thought, there is no other example of two categories of things as profoundly differentiated or as radically opposed to another. : scared things are marked by prohibition. Profane things are not prohibited or isolated. Your unwillingness to do something is how he view prohibition,