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In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. It's this premise that both drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred—as it has manifested in space ...
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred.
184.5M. 256 pages - English translation published 1959. Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred.
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythical hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
The distinction between the sacred and the profane is a fundamental concept in sociology, particularly in the study of religion and collective values. Coined by Émile Durkheim, this binary opposition has played a crucial role in understanding how societies organize their beliefs, rituals, and moral orders.
Renowned anthropologist and historian of religion Mircea Eliade attempts to describe how religious people experience the sacred. He also gives a fascinating explanation of primitive religions.
The Sacred and the Profane is an investigation into the universal structures of religious experience that are shared across all cultures. Eliade proposes that the central aspect uniting all religions is the experience of the sacred, a divine creative force.
The sacred–profane dichotomy is a concept posited by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, who considered it to be the central characteristic of religion: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden."
This article provides an in-depth exploration of Durkheim’s theory of religion, with a particular emphasis on his distinction between the sacred and the profane, his rejection of earlier theories, and his emphasis on religion’s collective nature.
In ‘The Elementary Forms of Religious life,’ Durkheim argued that all societies divide the world into two categories: sacred and profane. Religion is based upon this division: it is a unified system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things – things set apart and forbidden.