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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. A Study in Religious Sociology. By Émile Durkheim, Professor of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Paris. Translated from the French by Joseph Ward Swain, M.A., London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [September] 1915. Pp. xii, 456 includes an index. Imprimé à Plymouth sur les presses de William Brendon & Son, l’ouvrage est signalé comme « Just out » dans la page publicitaire de la Saturday review of politics, literature, sience and art du 16 octobre 1915 (vol. 120, n° 3129, p. 381). Vendu 15 shillings, son tirage est de 1000 exemplaires dont 250 sont à destination des États-Unis où l’ouvrage est diffusé depuis New York par The Macmillan Company au prix de 4 dollars.

La publication britannique s’accompagne d’un bref résumé que nous avons retrouvé inséré dans l'exemplaire  93 d.124 de la Bodleian Library (Oxford) :

By a study of the most elementary forms of the religious life which we know, Professor Durkheim attempts to throw some light upon the nature of religion in general. In the course of this study of its origins we are led to see the profoundly social character of religion; it is characterised by that which is sacred, and this is shown to be that which is pre-eminently social. The second part of the work is devoted to a study of the primitive cult and to an exposition of its social meaning and importance. Going further, M. Durkheim points out the religious origin of the other great forms of social activity, and in particular of philosophic thought. Even the categories of thought themselves are, as he shows, of religious and consequently of social origin.

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