...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...

...and the acts and beliefs which center around that idea. His formal definition of religion is this: "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...community called a church, all those who adhere to them."* So much for Durkheim's central thesis in his Elementary Forms of the Religioiis Life. But this is primarily...

...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...

...which are translated well enough by the words profane and sacred" (profane, sacr6). Granting this, "a religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...