In the same way that Sigmund Freud created a way of making sense of the dynamics and passions of the human psyche, the pioneering French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, created a language for ...

In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it. A religious system may be said to be ...

One of the most intriguing aspects of Durkheim's work was precisely his failure to say anything in detail about the nature of the sacred in today's society. The Elementary Forms offered a conceptual ...

I’ve written about this before in this space. We think we act rationally with the cold logic of a computer, but beneath we remain mere animals driven by instinct, habit, geography, time and mystery.