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Yuen Ching CHAN Religion is a social institution involving specific statements that people hold to be true and specific things people do in daily lives based on a sense of awe, reverence, and even fear. Thus, it involves beliefs and practices. The sense of awe, reverence and fear is a conception of the sacred, which is the contrary of the conception of the profane. The profane is, Durkheim explained, people defining most objects, events or experiences surrounded us as ordinary elements of everyday life. People distinguish sacred from profane, for example, statues of a person are to remember who have great importance in the history and treated as profane, but a statue of any God in its respective religion would be sacred. (Macionis & Plummer, pp462-3) These are just few basic ideas of what religion is to our societies. This essay is to compare and contrast the views of Durkheim...

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