Year: 2019 | Month: September | Volume 8 | Issue 3
Socio-Cultural Study of Village Deities in Peraiyur Taluk of Madurai District with Special Reference to Hero Stones
DOI:10.30954/2249-6637.03.2019.4
Abstract:
For as long as man has been on earth he wonders who he is where he comes from and why he acts the way he does. It would seem that much of human history has resulted from mans efforts to answer these questioning, because of the limits of his knowledge and technology, man throughout most of his history, has been unable to date concerning his own behavior and background. Hence, the has relied bodies of myth and folklore to answer these questions. Anthropology, as it has emerged over the last two hundred years is the scientific approach to answering mans questions about him. Even the early Anthropologists were led by their research to a realization of the social functional of religion. The study of totemic is points up this tendency. Thomism is based on the division of the whole world into those thing which are profane, or have no spirit was value for the Elam or tribe and these which are sacred. Not only gods spirits and sacred indeed, according to sociologist Emile Durkheim a rock, a spring, a pebble, a piece of wood, a house, in a world anything can be sacred.
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