Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each theorist to their signature idea about religion.
- Tylor
- Durkheim
- Van Gennep
- Turner
- Rites of passage in three phases
- Ritual effervescence: society worshipping itself
- Communitas in the liminal phase
- Animism: souls attributed to beings and things
Hints
- Each theorist located religion in a different source.
- One argued that society is worshipping itself.
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- Tylor → Animism: souls attributed to beings and things
- Durkheim → Ritual effervescence: society worshipping itself
- Van Gennep → Rites of passage in three phases
- Turner → Communitas in the liminal phase
Why
From soul-attribution, to society’s self-worship, to the machinery of transitions and the equality inside them, four building blocks of the anthropology of religion.
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