Scholarly / Academic / Science - Emile Durkheim on Religious Life
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Part five, religion and knowledge reading seven, the elementary forms of the religious life, the study which we are undertaking is therefore a way of taking up again. But under new conditions, the old problem of the origin of religion to be sure if by origin, we are to understand the very first beginning. The question has nothing scientific about it and should be resolutely discarded. What we want to do is to find a means of discerning the ever present causes upon which the most essential forms of a religious thought and practice depend for a long time. It has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves, the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.