Durkheim's approach gave rise to functionalist school in sociology and anthropology[REF] Functionalism is a sociological paradigm that originally attempted to explain social institutions as collective means to fill individual biological needs, focusing on the ways in which social institutions fill social needs, especially social stability.
The anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942) was strongly influenced by the functionalist school and argued that religion originated from coping with death [REF].