Durkheim Elementary forms

            Religious awareness is important for the normal technical knowledge because it does not describe the certain actions to the faithful ,but impound the Christians to prevent some ways of their activities. It is on the basis of the actions that are connected to the believers but they imprison themselves to abandoning several ways of actions. Those under the religion are aware of the difference between magic and the religious prohibition which can be explained by the fact that approvals are not similar. Religious awareness also approves that the magic permit is judged mainly by the material outcomes where the prohibited actions are prospected to have.  Therefore, “there is no sin in magic (Durkheim, 1915)”.  This makes them follow ways that are called taboos.  There is the religious interdictions whose main aim is to separate two sacred things of divergent kinds from each other although there is another form of religious interdiction which is more vital.  This is beneficial to the Christians as it separates not the different kinds from sacred things but all that is holy from evil. Touch may be developed by other ways where one has a connection with a thing by just concerning it by their means of touch (Durkheim, 1915).  This is why the prospect of the holy things is not allowed to the evil in some cases.  This addresses to the rational knowledge that the evil it is not right for them to address the holy beings or speak in their presence.  Moreover the holy things, there are scriptures and the sounds which has similar feature and this should not pass the lips of the wicked (Durkheim, 1915). 

            The Religious awareness is important for the rational knowledge as Christians know that all that is holy is the concept of respect and each respect is interpreted to those who feel it. It is true that, “all the actions of the normal life are prohibited while those that are of the religious life are put in place (Durkheim, 1915)”.  This brings us to the rational knowledge that all the sequential livelihoods are balanced while the huge religious solemnity is in action. This means that an honored person is shown in the realization by a depiction and developed by their mental energy, thus it is equipped in a way that hinders the distance to every other depiction which regulates it.  The holy being does not rest in its inherent quality but this is the outcome of the nature in which they rely themselves on.  The main reason for the awareness of the Christians is that they have the resemblance emotion.   They differentiate the good from evil (Durkheim, 1915). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Durkheim, Emile, 1915. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Joseph Ward Swain, Trans. New York: The Free Press.