Durkheim And The Dissolution Of Religion

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A fusion of individual consciousness that is ultimately greater than its sum, the collective consciousness functions as a unifying force that constrains potential amoral or anti-moral behaviors of the individual. As in the negative cult, a society is maintained through its flows and regulations. Durkheim believed religion, as a set of moral and ethical expectations, functions to uphold society. At the arrival of modernity, Durkheim worried about the dissolution of religion: he believed religion to be at base an “eminently collective thing” that was being increasingly undermined by religious individualism (Durkheim, 44). The individuality that modernity wrought concerned Durkheim because it threatened to fragment social identity, causing anomie
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