According to which sociologist, ‘rituals are sacred acts which represent the religious beliefs’ ?
Emile Durkheim
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim divided religious phenomena into beliefs (states of opinion, representations) and rites (determined modes of action).
For him rituals are rules of conduct prescribing how a person should behave towards sacred things; they enact and represent the collective beliefs of the group and periodically renew collective sentiment and solidarity.
Weber focused on religion and economic ethics, Tylor defined religion as belief in spiritual beings (animism), and Lenski studied religion and stratification; the belief–rite formulation is Durkheim's.
Hence, the answer is Emile Durkheim.
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