L'Elaboration de la notion de sacré dans l' « école » durkheimienne cas / The Elaboration of the Notion of the Holy among Durkheim's Followers.

In Durkheim's works the notion of the holy progressively acquires an importance it does not have at the beginning. A reading of Robertson Smith and the works of Hubert and Mauss give Durkheim's reflexion a new basis which finds its full expression in the synthesis of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.