Collective effervescence (CE) is a perceived energy formed by a gathering of people as might be experienced at a sporting event, a carnival, or a riot. This energy can cause people to act differently than in their everyday life. Carnival or Carnivale is an annual Christian festival season. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

CE in religion

Collective effervescence is the basis for Émile Durkheim's theory of religion as laid out in his 1912 volume Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. This book is largely based on studies of the aboriginal tribes. Emile Durkheim. ... The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. ... http://www. ...

Durkheim argues that the universal religious dichotomy of profane and sacred results from the lives of these tribe members: most of their life is spent performing menial tasks such as hunting and gathering. These tasks are profane. The rare occasions on which the entire tribe gathers together becomes sacred, and the high energy level associated with these events gets directed onto physical objects or people which then become sacred.

For Durkheim, religion is a fundamentally social phenomenon. The beliefs and practices of the sacred are a method of social organization. According to Durkheim: A social animal is a loosely defined term for an organism that is highly interactive with other members of its species to the point of having a recognizable and distinct society. ...

god and society are one of the same…the god of the clan…can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined in the physical form of a plant or animal that serves as a totem.^[1]

Literature

• Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, (1912, English translation by Joseph Swain: 1915) The Free Press, 1965. ISBN 0-02-908010-X, new translation by Karen E. Fields 1995, ISBN 0-02-907937-3

See also

• Carnival
• Hooliganism
• Riot
• Crowd psychology
• Collective hysteria
• Ochlocracy
• Herd behavior
• Collective behavior
• Violence in sports
• Football (soccer) hooliganism
• Mass action (sociology)
• Group behaviour
• Group action (sociology)
• Peer pressure
• Social comparison theory
• Spiral of silence
• Herd instinct
• Bandwagon effect
• Collective consciousness
• Collective Effervescence
• Collective intelligence
• Group behaviour
• Grateful Dead concerts
• Herd morality
• Mob rule
• Sheeple
• Keeping up with the Joneses

Carnival or Carnivale is an annual Christian festival season. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Ordinary people typically can gain direct power by acting collectively. ... Collective hysteria, or mass hysteria, is the sociopsychological phenomenon of the manifestation of the same hysterical symptoms by more than one person. ... Ochlocracy (Greek: οχλοκρατια; Latin: ochlocratia) is government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of constitutional authorities. ... It has been suggested that Herding instinct be merged into this article or section. ... Collective behavior is a specialized term in sociology. ... In sports which are inherently violent, violence which goes beyond what is permitted by the rules sometimes occurs. ... Football hooliganism is hooliganism by football club supporters. ... For chemistry term, see law of mass action Mass action in sociology refers to the situations where large number of people behave simultaneously in similar way but individaully and without coordiantion. ... Group behaviour in sociology refers to the situations where large number of people in a given area behave simoultanesly in similar way and have a similar goal, but they individaully and without coordiantion. ... Group action in sociology refers to the situations where large number of people in a given area behave simultaneously in similar way with have a similar goal, and their actions are coordinated. ... Peer pressure comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/or behaviors. ... Social comparison theory (Festinger 1954) is the idea that individuals learn about and assess themselves by comparison with other people. ... The spiral of silence is a political science and mass communication theory propounded by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. ... The herding instinct in humans may have some connection with group behaviours in other animals The so-called herding instinct is a social tendency in humans to identify with and model many behaviors and beliefs after a larger group of individuals with whom they identify. ... The bandwagon effect is the observation that people often do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. ... The French social theorist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) used the term collective consciousness in his The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). ... Collective Effervescence refers to the energy formed by a gathering of people as might be experienced at a sporting event, a carnival, or a riot. ... It has been suggested that symbiotic intelligence be merged into this article or section. ... Group behaviour in sociology refers to the situations where large number of people in a given area behave simoultanesly in similar way and have a similar goal, but they individaully and without coordiantion. ... A black-and-white photo of the above symbol was featured inside the album jacket of the self-titled Grateful Dead album along with the address below. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 to August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philosopher. ... Ochlocracy (Greek: οχλοκρατια; Latin: ochlocratia) is government by mob or a disorganized mass of people. ... Sheeple is a term of disparagement, a portmanteau created by combining the words sheep and people; a reference to herd mentality. ... Look up keep up with the Joneses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

External links

• An analysis of Mardi Gras based on collective effervescence

References

1. ^ Durkheim, Émile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: The Free Press, 1995, 208.