Religion went through a long journey to sustain where it is today. Most of the rites people have faced in cults may seem bizarre to us today, but those cults have impacted us.
Durkheim discussed and mentioned these cults for a reason. He wanted to go into more depth of the history of religion, so we can have a better understanding of it. In all honesty, most of the horrible rites had created something positive afterward. As a result, totemic beliefs have brought up ideas of the construction of society from tribes. Also, negative cults have brought to us the system of asceticism. Without knowing the history of religion, we would not understand it. Now that we know the history of religion, it very much more understandable.
Durkheim discussed and mentioned these cults for a reason. He wanted to go into more depth of the history of religion, so we can have a better understanding of it. In all honesty, most of the horrible rites had created something positive afterward. As a result, totemic beliefs have brought up ideas of the construction of society from tribes. Also, negative cults have brought to us the system of asceticism. Without knowing the history of religion, we would not understand it. Now that we know the history of religion, it very much more understandable.