Concept information
Preferred term
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]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sacred_and_profane
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