Question

An Émile Durkheim work about the origins of these practices explains how the sacred is “set apart and forbidden” from mundane human experience. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these practices, common among most human societies, whose believers often rely on faith.
ANSWER: religions [or word forms like religiosity and religious]
[10m] Durkheim’s sacred/profane distinction first appeared in his study of these objects that groups imbue with religious meaning. A Sigmund Freud essay on the incest taboo appears in a work partly titled for these objects.
ANSWER: totems [accept totemism]
[10h] This theorist wrote The Sacred and the Profane, in which myths are described as hierophanies, or manifestations of the sacred in otherwise-profane areas. This theorist analyzed the axis mundi across myth systems.
ANSWER: Mircea Eliade (“MEER-chay-ah ay-lee-AH-day”)
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BirminghamOxford B1010020
Imperial ABristol B100010
Cambridge BSouthampton B100010
Durham BCambridge D1010020
EdinburghDurham A0000
Warwick BImperial B100010
Cambridge CLSE B0000
LSE ASouthampton A1010020
Southampton ASouthampton B100010
Oxford ATeam 110101030
Warwick ABristol A1010020