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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

CHAPTER I

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THE NEGATIVE CULT AND ITS FUNCTIONS THE ASCETIC RITES I.--The system of interdictions--Magic and religious interdictions--Interdictions between sacred things of different sorts--Interdictions between sacred and profane--These latter are the basis of the negative cult--Leading types of these interdictions; their reduction to two essential types 299 II.--The observance of interdictions modifies the religious state of individuals--Cases where this efficacy is especially apparent: ascetic practices--The religious efficacy of sorrow-- Social function of asceticism 309 III.--Explanation of the system of interdictions: antagonism of the sacred and the profane, contagiousness of the sacred 317 IV.--Causes of this contagiousness--It cannot be explained by the laws of the association of ideas--It is because religious forces are outside of their subjects--Logical interest in this property of religious forces 321
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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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