These mysticism's give hypotheses and add a supersensuous meaning to the ordinary outward stem of consciousness. ... James belief's about Freud's scientific analysis of the origin and persistence of human beings?... Freud's analysis is based upon our own scientific investigation where as Broad believes that the origin is created through those who have traced back religions to experiences. ... These mysticism's give hypotheses and add a supersensuous meaning to the ordinary outward stem of consciousness. ...

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One of the most influential theories applied to religion is built upon Emile Durkheim's analysis of the sacred in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1965). ... Durkheim affirmed that religion developed in society when a distinction was made concerning the sacred-the ultimate concern that is transcendental and extraordinary-and the profane-that which is ordinary. ...

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