![]() ![]() 1 But it was, a few years later, Rudolf Otto who defined religion as the ‘mysterium tremendum et fascinans’, the mystery of the forces that a given society feels are beyond its understanding and control. that religion was the prime motor of societal integration, concluding that most if not all representations of society will, on closer study, show the significance of religious culture. Yet, back in 1912, in his Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, Emile Durkheim reiterated the notion he had expressed earlier, viz. Increasingly, Eurasians have difficulty in understanding (or making others understand) religion(s)-certainly deistic-fideistic religion(s)-as a central element in man’s thinking and acting.
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