However, if it is in terms of understanding how religion developed over time and thus became internal to individuals, then Elementary Forms of Religious Life can be useful for provide an overview of this. Evidently Durkheim's intentions as to why he wrote this are unclear, he may simply be interested in the evolutionary development of religion or there may be a hidden agenda behind his work. Since he did not practice a religion, this may explain his emphasis on "other" things being sacred or worthy of recognition rather than typically "personal beings" such as Gods, saints, or spirits. This could imply Durkheim's idea of ​​how to live spiritually by appreciating certain virtues, developing one's own moral guidelines, and living according to them. Instead of worshiping a personal being, this could cause future conflict and hatred between people who worship other personal beings. This is why he might see Buddhism as the ideal religion because it focuses more on scared concepts like the Four Noble Truths rather than a supreme being which he actually believed was a relatively new idea due to science's need to separate human beings from other beings. . Durkheim was essentially trying to answer a complex philosophical question about what the fundamental nature of religion is through sociological rather than philosophical means. Once again he attempts to do this by examining the beginnings of primitive religion, its nature and sacred concepts. Lester F Ward who wrote "The Essential Nature of Religion", although published before Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, still corroborates with Durkheim in the sense that to understand religion and its meaning in this world and for individuals who practice religion In life we ​​have to look at the beginnings of religion and how it came into being