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Front Matter
Table of Contents
Introduction--Subject of Our Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge
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Book I: Preliminary Questions
Chapter I Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion
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Chapter II: Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion--Animism
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IV
V
Chapter III: Leading Conceptions of the Elementary Religion--Naturism
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III
Chapter IV: Totemism as an Elementary Religion--History of the Question, Method of Treating It
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II
Book II: the Elementary Beliefs
Chapter I: Totemic Beliefs--The Totem as Name and as Emblem
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III
Chapter II Totemic Beliefs--The Totemic Animal and Man
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II
Chapter III Totemic Beliefs--The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class
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II
III
Chapter IV Totemic Beliefs--End of the Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem
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II
Chapter V Origins of These Beliefs--Critical Examination of Preceding Theories
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IV
V
Chapter VI Origins of These Beliefs--The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force
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Chapter VII Origins of These Beliefs--Origin of the Idea of the Totemic Principle or Mana
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Chapter VIII The Idea of the Soul
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VI
Chapter IX The Idea of Spirits and Gods
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IV
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Book III: the Principal Ritual Attitudes
Chapter I The Negative Cult and Its Functions: The Ascetic Rites
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IV
Chapter II The Positive Cult: The Elements of the Sacrifice
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Chapter III The Positive Cult: Imitative Rites and the Principle of Causality
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Chapter IV The Positive Cult: Representative or Commemorative Rites
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Chapter V Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of Sacredness
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IV
Conclusion
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Index
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