The Sacred and the Profane
The Sacred and the Profane

Author: Mircea Eliade

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780156792011

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Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.

Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures
Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures

Author: Marcy Norton

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780801476327

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Traces European encounters and use of tobacco and cacao and its eventual commodification into a major business from the earliest period through the seventeenth century.

Sacred and Profane
Sacred and Profane

Author: Carol Crown

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781578069163

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A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists

The Sacred Is the Profane
The Sacred Is the Profane

Author: William Arnal

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0199757119

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The Sacred is the Profane collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advance current scholarly debates on secularism-debates. The essays return, again and again, to the question of what "religion"—word and concept—accomplishes, now, for those who employ it, whether at the popular, political, or scholarly level. The focus here is on the efficacy, costs, and the tactical work carried out by dividing the world between religious and political, church and state, sacred and profane.

On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)
On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)

Author: Raymond Aaron Younis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 149857369X

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This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), in relation to some of the diverse religions of the world and the rich and multifarious traditions of the sacred in many cultures and times, in the context of ontology (broadly, the philosophical study or investigation of being). It provides incisive critical analyses and evaluations of many important contributions to our understanding of the sacred, and the holy, especially in relation to the world's religions, religious experience, religious insight or knowledge, metaphysics, mythology and mysticism. A number of important theories and explanations are also critically analyzed and evaluated, including the numinous theory of the sacred and the holy (Otto), the psychodynamic theory (Freud), the sociological theory (Durkheim), empirical theories (Russell and Ayer), the ontological question (Heidegger) and the hierophantic theory (Eliade)—among others. The book concludes with a number of reflections on the ontology of the sacred (and the profane) in relation to philosophy and science, that will open up new pathways of thinking, reflection and investigation in the 21st century.

The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly
The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly

Author: Richard P. Gildrie

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1993-11-24

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0271075414

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In this prize-winning study of the sacred and profane in Puritan New England, Richard P. Gildrie seeks to understand not only the fears, aspirations, and moral theories of Puritan reformers but also the customs and attitudes they sought to transform. Topics include tavern mores, family order, witchcraft, criminality, and popular religion. Gildrie demonstrates that Puritanism succeeded in shaping regional society and culture for generations not because New Englanders knew no alternatives but because it offered a compelling vision of human dignity capable of incorporating and adapting crucial elements of popular mores and aspirations.

Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images
Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images

Author: Gabriele Paleotti

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 160606116X

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In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Paleotti's 'Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images' argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators.

History and Presence
History and Presence

Author: Robert A. Orsi

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 2018-06-11

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0674984595

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable. “Orsi’s evoking of the full reality of the holy in the world is extremely moving, shot through with wonder and horror.” —Caroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge “This is a meticulously researched, humane, and deeply challenging book. The men and women studied in this book do not belong to ‘a world we have lost.’ They belong to a world we have lost sight of.” —Peter Brown, Princeton University “[A] brilliant, theologically sophisticated exploration of the Catholic experience of God’s presence through the material world... On every level—from its sympathetic, honest, and sometimes moving ethnography to its astute analytical observations—this book is a scholarly masterpiece.” —A. W. Klink, Choice “Orsi recaptures God’s breaking into the world ... The book does an excellent job of explaining both the difficulties and values inherent in recognizing God in the world.” —Publishers Weekly “This book is classic Orsi: careful, layered, humane, and subtle...a thought-provoking, expertly arranged tour of precisely those abundant, excessive phenomena which scholars have historically found so difficult to think.” —Sonja Anderson, Reading Religion

To Touch the Face of God
To Touch the Face of God

Author: Kendrick Oliver

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1421407884

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Oliver's study is rigorous and detailed but contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind's first adventures in "the heavens."