The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. 1. A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion. 2. The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: I. Animism. 3. The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion: II. Naturism. 4. Totemism as Elementary Religion: Historical Review of the Question, Method of Treating It. 1. Central Totemic Beliefs: I. The Totem as Name and Emblem. 2. Central Totemic Beliefs: II. The Totemic Animal and Man. 3. Central Totemic Beliefs: III. The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Notion of Genus. 4. Central Totemic Beliefs: IV. The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem. 5. The Origins of These Beliefs: I.A Critical Examination of the Theories. 6. The Origins of These Beliefs: II. The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force. 7. The Origins of These Beliefs: III. The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana. 8. The Notion of Soul. 9. The Notion of Spirits and Gods. 1. The Negative Cult and its Functions: Ascetic Rites. 2. The Positive Cult: I. The Element of Sacrifice. 3. The Positive Cult: II. Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality. 4. The Positive Cult: III. Representative of Commemorative Rites. 5. Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred
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