sacred versus profane distinction
- sacred versus profane distinction
sacred, sacred versus profane distinction
For Émile
Durkheim and all subsequent sociologists of
religion , the recognition of the absolute nature of the distinction between these two terms was and has been fundamental to their sub-discipline, both as a
social fact and as something to be explained. Durkheim's classic statement of the distinction is that ‘Sacred things are those which the [religious] interdictions protect and isolate; profane things, those to which these interdictions are applied and which must remain at a distance from the first’ (
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912). Sacred phenomena are therefore considered extraordinary and set apart from everything else.
Dictionary of sociology.
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