My main purpose in this paper is to argue on the meaning of the concept of effervescence within durkheimian work, pointing to the role played by this process in the general scenario of his moral theory. Roughly speaking, the argumentation is grounded on the articulation between three structural premises of Durkheimian moral theory, namely: 1) the attachment between the sacred and the moral ideal; 2) his conception about human nature as essential dual and 3) Durkheim's normative defence of institutionalization of secular morality. Towards the end I incite the reader to think about the pertinence of his defence of a "secular sacred", in the light of the moral challenges in contemporary world.
Durkheim; effervescence; moral; sacred