Emile Durkheim, The Origin of the Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana

Parallels between original purposes. If god and society were one and the same, religion was the worship of society itself, and the god of a clan was none other than the clan itself..

The Source of today’s exhibit is:

Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, translated and with an Introduction by Karen E. Fields, The Free Press 1995