The long anticipated episode on Émile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) finally happens in Episode 6. It was AAR Judgment Day when we recorded (aka the final deadline for paper and panel submissions to the American Academy of Religion’s national conference in November), so Sean and Lucas reward themselves with a little boxed wine. Joel and Lucas disagree over the similarities and dis-similarities between Durkheim and Freud, the status of “society” as a concept is discussed, and Sean’s WiFi cuts out in an electrical storm leaving Joel and Lucas to bring it home. We promise Sean will be on for an entire episode soon.

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