concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: sacred and profane

French social theory
type: Concept
narrower: sacred and profane

sacred and profane
definition: Emile Durkheim (1912) made much of this distinction in his Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. The sacred were those things that were set apart and revered; everything else was profane. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Sacred and Profane]
broader: French social theory
type: Concept