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Durkheim is used to define religion as the collective system of ideas through which people imagine society and construct a first representation of relations between things.
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Collective Thought
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"Without religion we could not be human. We could not think. We could not communicate. We could not imagine. Does it make sense guys?..."
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"So the great service that religions have rendered to thought is to have constructed a first representation of the relations of kinship between things..."
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"...the real a new kind of thought had to be created. Collective thought. Okay? So religion is our collective consciousness. It's what allows society..."
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