Seitenhistorie

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Tylor, Edward B. (2008\[1871\]): Religion in Primitive Culture, in Lambek, M.: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 2. Ausg., Malden et al.: Blackwell, S. 25.

Émile Durkheim

"_A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden - beliefs an practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them."

Durkheim, Émile (2008\[1912\]): The elementary forms of religious life, in: Lambek, M.: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 2. Ausg., Malden et al.: Blackwell, S. 45.

Clifford Geertz

"...(1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by (3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

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