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COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE - Coggle Diagram
COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE
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Emile Durkheim
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colonialist thinking- looked into aboriginal and indigeonous societies to "investigate the roots" of mankind thus infantilizing them
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i could definitely imagine this guy being one of the proprietors of the colonialist project- the reading was super Christian-centric, holding christianity as the most pure and developed form of religion, his other ideas about "great" and "minor" religions, and his commentary about "undeveloped" and "non-scientific" societies was no good
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humans create gods
so i was reminded of orsi's network of relationships analogy here. the idea that it's not only humans giving everything they have to the divine and devoting their lives to a nonexistent entity but instead that humans are giving as much as they are receving, and this exchange happens in a variety of ways and perspectives