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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

CHAPTER VIII

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THE IDEA OF THE SOUL I.--Analysis of the idea of the soul in the Australian societies 240 II.--Genesis of this idea--The doctrine of reincarnation according to Spencer and Gillen: it implies that the soul is a part of the totemic principle--Examination of the facts collected by Strehlow; they confirm the totemic nature of the soul 246 III.--Generality of the doctrine of reincarnation--Diverse facts in support of the proposed genesis 256 IV.--Antithesis of the soul and the body: what there is objective in this--Relations of the individual soul with the collective soul--The idea of the soul is not chronologically after that of mana 262 V.--Hypothesis to explain the belief in its survival 267 VI.--The idea of a soul and the idea of a person; impersonal elements in the personality 269
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1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION 3. BOOK I 4. CHAPTER I 5. CHAPTER II 6. CHAPTER III 7. CHAPTER IV 8. BOOK II 9. CHAPTER I 10. CHAPTER II 11. CHAPTER III 12. CHAPTER IV 13. CHAPTER V 14. CHAPTER VI 15. CHAPTER VII 16. CHAPTER VIII 17. CHAPTER IX 18. BOOK III 19. CHAPTER I 20. CHAPTER II 21. CHAPTER III 22. CHAPTER IV 23. CHAPTER V 24. INTRODUCTION 25. BOOK I 26. CHAPTER I 27. CHAPTER II 28. CHAPTER III 29. CHAPTER IV 30. BOOK II 31. CHAPTER I 32. CHAPTER II 33. CHAPTER III 34. CHAPTER IV 35. CHAPTER V 36. CHAPTER VI 37. CHAPTER VII 38. CHAPTER VIII 39. CHAPTER IX 40. BOOK III 41. CHAPTER I 42. CHAPTER II 43. CHAPTER III 44. CHAPTER IV 45. CHAPTER V 46. 131. Here are designs, many of which evidently have the object of 47. 339. Must we see a trace of sexual totemism in the following custom of

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