Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons. (Émile Durkheim)

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Émile Durkheim

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