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    It is not the case that Durkheim and Evans-Pritchard both demonstrated that in traditional societies, moral norms are structurally embedded in religious cosmologies, making conceptual separation of the two analytically misleading.

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    • 1.Even in traditional societies, people distinguish between religious prescription and practical moral reasoning—suggesting conceptual separation reflects natives' categories.
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    • 2.Moral principles like reciprocity and harm-prevention appear across religiously diverse societies, indicating some moral norms transcend particular cosmologies.
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    • 3.The claim conflates functional integration with conceptual indistinguishability—institutions can overlap while maintaining analytically separable dimensions.
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    • 1.Durkheim's empirical work showed religious rituals functionally reinforce social solidarity, which is itself the foundation of moral obligation.
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    • 2.Evans-Pritchard's Azande ethnography demonstrated that cosmological beliefs directly constituted the epistemic basis for ethical judgments about conduct.
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    • 3.Treating religion and morality as analytically separate imposes Western categorical frameworks that distort how non-Western societies actually organized meaning.
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