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EMILE DURKHEIM SOCIOLOGY ON RELIGION
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EMILE DURKHEIM SOCIOLOGY ON RELIGION

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Durkheim defined religion to be a collectivity of obligatory values and practices that
make the be in a state of the moral order, and these beliefs are not in any way related to a sacred
power. He argued that this happens after the society has developed a system of social order and
the forces of morality come in to play and mobilize all individuals in the community to follow a
particular order. The principle of his argument is that there exists no sacred power and that the
moral principles guiding people's life when put together generate a religious experience among
the society's members. Hence leads to the feeling and belief on a sacred power, and thus
Durkheim refers to it as society divinized since it's the morality that acts as the guiding principle.
He ba...