 | Albert Cornelius Knudson - Christianity - 1924 - 340 pages
...human institution cannot rest upon an error and a lie, without which it could not exist. ... In reality there are no religions which are false. All are true in their fashion; all answer, though in different ways, to the given conditions of human existence." In other... | |
 | Victor Witter Turner - History - 1967 - 436 pages
...the symbol to the reality which it represents and which gives it its meaning. No religions are false, all answer, though in different ways, to the given conditions of human existence." Among those given conditions, the arrangement of society into structured groupings, discrepancies between... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston - 100 Philosophy - 1946 - 508 pages
...of the essential nature of religion that we have to understand Durkheim's assertion that 'in reality there are no religions which are false. All are true...in different ways, to the given conditions of human existence'.4 Obviously, Durkheim does not mean to imply that all religious beliefs, if considered as... | |
 | Steven Lukes - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 704 pages
...which is peculiar to religious thought'. 46 It was in this rather special sense that he claimed that' there are no religions which are false. All are true in their own fashion.' 47 They were true in the sense that they stated and expressed in a non-objective, symbolic or metaphorical... | |
 | Brian Morris - Religion - 1987 - 386 pages
...some aspect of life, either individual or social. As he put it, in an oftquoted passage, In reality - there are no religions which are false. All are true...ways, to the given conditions of human existence. So when we turn to primitive religions, it is not with the idea of depreciating religion in general,... | |
 | Terry F. Godlove, Terry F. Godlove, Jr - Philosophy - 1989 - 234 pages
...false conceptual frameworks - that all express "the true." Thus, when sociologically reinterpreted, "there are no religions which are false. All are true in their own fashion" (EF, 15). Even bizarre and fantastic-seeming beliefs and rituals turn out, when sociologically decoded,... | |
 | Douglas Renfrew Brooks - Religion - 1992 - 332 pages
...things, it would have encountered in the facts a resistance over which it could never have triumphed... there are no religions which are false. All are true...all answer, though in different ways, to the given condition of human existence. (See Durkheim, pp. 14-15.) The present essay will refrain from discussing... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - Durkheim, Emile, 1858-1917 - 1995 - 216 pages
...grammar. This is further indicated in the introduction to The Forms where he states: In reality, then, there are no religions which are false. All are true in their own fashion . . . when we turn to primitive religions, it is not with the idea of depreciating religion in general,... | |
 | Margaret Spufford - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 490 pages
...reasons do not cease to exist, and it is the duty of science to discover them . . . In reality, then, there are no religions which are false. All are true in their own fashion.26* In his 'Introduction' to the second edition in 1976. Robert Nisbet wrote: an aspect of... | |
 | Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 372 pages
...Tylor's 'minimum definition' and his idea that religion as a general philosophy was false. For Durkheim, 'there are no religions which are false. All are true...ways, to the given conditions of human existence" (Durkhcim 1961: 15). Sociology attempted to discover 'the ever-present causes upon which the most essential... | |
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In reality, then, there are no religions which are false. All are true in their own fashion; all answer, though in different ways, to the given conditions of human existence. 
