Emile Durkheim — "If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because t…"

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
Emile Durkheim — Emile Durkheim Modern · Sociology founder

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His theory of religion as a symbolic representation of society itself, suggesting that God is society deified. This can be shocking to those with traditional religious beliefs.

Date: 1912

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