The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
CHAPTER IV
THE POSITIVE CULT--(_continued_)
III.--_Representative or Commemorative Rites_
I.--Representative rites with physical efficacy--Their relations
with the ceremonies already described--Their action is wholly
moral 371
II.--Representative rites without physical efficacy--They confirm
the preceding results--The element of recreation in religion:
its importance; its reason for existence--The idea of a feast 376
III.--Ambiguity of function in the various ceremonies studied;
they substitute themselves for each other--How this ambiguity
confirms the theory proposed 383