sacred and profane

a distinction particularly employed in sociology by DURKHEIM in which the sacred, which includes all phenomena which are set apart and revered, is distinguished from all other phenomena, the profane. For Durkheim, beliefs and practices in relation to the sacred are the defining feature of any RELIGION.

References in classic literature ?

We passed it in the night, and entered that sea, so renowned on many accounts in history, both sacred and profane.

View in context

The nature of the religion" (1987), and by Emile Durkheim's perspective on religion as the division of objects and events into two distinctive and oppositional groups: the sacred and profane (1995).

RELIGION AND POLITICAL SYSTEM. REPRESENTATION OF THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE "COLECTIV" INCIDENT

The opening of new spaces and programs coincides with the start of the gallery's latest exhibition, Sacred and Profane, featuring three large-scale works by renowned international artists: Public Notice 2 2007 by Jitish Kallat, Chinese Bible 2009 by Yang Zhichao and The sacred and the profane 1998 by Nalini Malani.

Australia : Innovation and new spaces expand gallery appeal

You cannot serve both God and money." (24) As the non-place takes over the sacred function from other heterotopias, it becomes clear that God and money are not two separate entities but two (sacred and profane) modalities of one and the same thing.

The non-place between sacred and profane: utopian gestures in the apparatus of semiocapitalism in Laurent Cantets L'emploi du temps

Over the course of the twelfth century, however, the city gradually acquires an increasingly detailed urban landscape, one which features both sacred and profane spaces existing adjacent to and interconnected with one another.

A hierophany emergent: the discursive reconquest of the urban landscape of Jerusalem in Latin pilgrimage accounts from the twelfth century

In short, the binary discourse of civil society--as used in contemporary cultural sociology--is structured in a manner homologous with that obtaining between the sacred and profane as analyzed in EFRL.

DURKHEIM, DEVELOPMENT AND THE DEVIL: A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNITY CONFLICT

This paper suggests that the mystery sites at Eleusis, Thebes, and Samothrace and their civic counterpart--the ancient polis--reflect Durkheimian dichotomy of the sacred and profane. (2) This binary generated entire sacred cities--the mystery sanctuaries--in opposition to the profane polis.

Stream, stone, oikos, polis: sacred space and ancient mystery cult sanctuaries

CARAVAGGIO: A LIFE SACRED AND PROFANE could also have been featured in our 'Arts' section but is reviewed here for a fine survey equally recommended for any literary general-interest collection strong in the arts and in biography.

Caravaggio

As Cerocchi argues, paradoxically it is Saint Francis who takes the first step towards bringing together the sacred and profane elements of music, merging them into one mixed genre.

Marco Cerocchi. Funzioni semantiche e metatestuali della musica in Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio

Hypothetically speaking, both sacred and profane films can be made from an insider's perspective or an outsider's perspective.

Man, God, passion and rent collection

This phenomenon--an inversion of the Jewish sacred and profane places--is rather typical of many informants who go to Jewish centers.

Sacred and profane space in the modern Russian city: a choice of Russian Jews

Chapter two is devoted to Kama, the Indian Eros that changes from its Vedic concept of 'creative energy' to amorous passion in erotics and classical Sanskrit literature, and from erotic-amorous longing for union, kama is metamorphosed intoprema-bhakti; and the assimilation of kama, prema and bhakti tends to resolve the duality between sacred and profane thereby paving the path for non-dualistic unity which is the summum bonum of life in Indian tradition.

Bishnu Charan Dash, Mystic Eros Troubadours and the Vaisnava Poets of Medieval India