Anonymity and the Rise of Universal Occasions for Religious Ritual: An Extension of the Durkheimian Theory.
In this research, Durkheim's theory of the universalization of religious beliefs is extended to analyze the occurrence of religious rituals. Drawing upon Schutz's phenomenology of social relations, we amplify theoretically the Durkheindam perspective and suggest that the universalization process is...
| Published in: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 113 - 131 |
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