Thursday, January 19, 2017

 

Holy Crap

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, tr. Joseph Ward Swain (New York: Collier Books, 1961), p. 261, n. 43:
Even the excreta have a religious character. See Preuss, Der Ursprung der Religion und Kunst, especially ch. ii, entitled Der Zauber der Defäkation (Globus, LXXXVI, pp. 325 ff.).
A fuller reference: Konrad Theodor Preuss (1869-1938), "Der Ursprung der Religion und Kunst," Globus. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde 86 (1904) 321-327, 355-363, 375-379, 388-392, and 87 (1905) 333-337, 347-350, 380-384, 394-400, 413-419.

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