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This article provides an in-depth exploration of Durkheim’s theory of religion, with a particular emphasis on his distinction between the sacred and the profane, his ...
Feb 15, 2009 · No God, then nothing originally sacred. Atheism rules out the sacred. And if nothing is originally sacred, then nothing is derivatively sacred either. If there is no God, then there are no prophets or saints or holy relics or holy places or holy books.
Sep 22, 2009 · In fact, however, the distinction between sacred and profane, and the critical review of the anthropology of religion that occupy Book I are essential to Durkheim's epistemological argument. The first dualism, sacred versus profane, turns out also to be the first classification.
- Durkheim on The Sacred and The Profane
- Secular and Sacred
- Is Nothing sacred?!
Those things that we cordon off as being valuable beyond anything were of great concern to the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, and he labelled them “the sacred.” According to Durkheim, it is religion that forms the foundation of all the multifarious societies we live in. This is not to say we need any particular religious content — like imams, p...
But this delineation of the sacred and profane did not go away with secularism. In fact, Durkheim believed that as the more overtly religious aspects of the sacred became diluted, then we would replace them with human achievements and human nature. If we don’t have a god, we make humanity sacred (in what we would likely call humanism). It is as if ...
Are freedom and democracy sacred? Among Americans today, promoting democracy abroad is way down on their priority list. The think tank Freedom Househas written that “2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom”. What about our sacred rituals? Let’s consider marriage. Marriage rates in the US are down by nearly 10 percent over th...
The interest of sociologists in the social significance of the sacred is largely derived from the concerns of the subdiscipline of the sociology of religion. However, considerable disagreement exists as to the precise social origins of that which is designated sacred.
Oct 13, 2017 · While the connection between the homo sacer and the sacred as a theoretical concept is primarily word historical (etymological), Agamben speaks of the Roman legal creation of the homo sacer as ‘a figure of the sacred’ (Agamben Citation 1998, loc. 117) and, following earlier scholars such as Robertson Smith, as a case for a more general ...
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Mar 11, 2015 · By deriving the sacred from expenditure and the heterogeneous, Bataille ends up with a view that differs significantly from Durkheim's. He roots the sacred in unregulated materiality that needs to be excluded for orderly (profane) human life to be possible. Sacred things are primarily disturbing, forbidden things excluded from everyday life.
