VVV: The Crowley and the Profane

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Now, the crucial point is that Émile Durkheim considered religion as kinda
early proto-sociology (here most def in the tradition of Comte) or, as Steven
Lukes has it in his still recommendable classic on Durkheim from 1973, a 
"mythological sociology". So Durkheim gives the following definition:
 
"A religion is a solidarity-system of believes and practices which refer 
to holy (this means: separated and forbidden) things, believes and practices,
which in one and the same moral community (you could also say: 'church')
unify all people who belong there."
 
Émile Durkheim: Les formes élementaires de la vie religieuse [1912].
 
The scholar to whom Eliade also refers to in this context, hasn't been 
mentioned here yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Otto
 
 
Anxiety of Influence?
 
KFL
 
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> My quick online study sez Durkheim thought man was not naturally religious but it grew from 
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> the world into what was profane.......the rest was sacred and could be a kind of animism.........
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> Eliade seemed to think religious feelings came first universally.....
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