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Life lived on two different planes - the sacred and the profane.
Profane is the realm of the everyday, vanishing and. fragile. Arena of human affairs, changeable and chaotic.
Sacred is the opposite, sphere of things supernatural, of things extraordinary, momentous or memorable, sphere of order and perfection, home of the ancestors, heroes, and gods.
— Dec 21, 2022 09:30AM
Profane is the realm of the everyday, vanishing and. fragile. Arena of human affairs, changeable and chaotic.
Sacred is the opposite, sphere of things supernatural, of things extraordinary, momentous or memorable, sphere of order and perfection, home of the ancestors, heroes, and gods.
Ian Grantham
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Mircea Eliade
Two axioms1) Strong stand on reductionism and the need for religion to be studied as religion, because trying to study through other disciplines misses the central point, its sacredness.
2) Method. History and phenomenology.
— Dec 21, 2022 09:16AM
Two axioms1) Strong stand on reductionism and the need for religion to be studied as religion, because trying to study through other disciplines misses the central point, its sacredness.
2) Method. History and phenomenology.
