Practice mode Miscellaneous Economics

What does Durkheim’s analysis suggest about so-called primitive peoples?

Correct answer B. Projected their human ideals and personified them as gods

Explanation

Durkheim argued that religion is society worshipping itself: clans projected their shared ideals onto totems and gods, personifying the collective force of the group as the sacred.

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