Émile Durkheim, an early scholar of religion, stressed what he termed religious effervescence. Anthropologists too have stressed
A. the collective as well as individual universality of religion.
B. the analysis of the use of behavior-altering drugs in religious experience.
C. that proper analysis requires separation of collective re-creation from collective religion.
D. that religious worlds are real and significant to those who construct and inhabit them.
E. the qualities that make religion present in some societies but not in others.
Answer: D
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