Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Título original: Les forms de la vie religieuse CONTENIDO: Subject of the study: religious sociology and the theory of knowledge -- Definition of religious phenomena and of religion -- The leading conceptions of the elementary religion: animism -- The leading conceptions of the elementary religion (continuation) : naturism -- Totemism as elementary religion: review of the question. Method of treating it -- The principal totemic beliefs: the totem as name and as emblem -- The principal totemic beliefs (continued): the totemic animal and man -- The principal totemic beliefs (continued): the cosmological system of totemism and the notion of kind -- The principal totemic beliefs (end): the individual totem and the sexual totem -- Origins of these beliefs -- Critical examination of the theories -- Origins of these beliefs (continued): the notion of totemic principles, or mana, and the idea of force -- Origins of these beliefs (conclusion): origin of the notion of totemic principle, or mana -- The notion of soul -- The notion of spirits and Gods -- The negative cult and its functions: the ascetic rites -- The positive cult: the elements of the sacrifice -- The positive cult (Continuation): mimetic rites and the principle of causality -- The positive cult (continuation): representative or commemorative rites -- The piacular rites and the ambiguity of the notion of the sacred -- Conclusion.
