The Sacred: Differentiating, Clarifying and Extending Concepts
Disparate uses of the term "sacred" are illustrated, and three categories of meaning are suggested: religious, transcendent, and set apart. The latter concept is differentiated from the other two, and its conceptual and linguistic relationships to them explored. The set-apart sacred is the...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Review of religious research
Year: 2003, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-47 |
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| Summary: | Disparate uses of the term "sacred" are illustrated, and three categories of meaning are suggested: religious, transcendent, and set apart. The latter concept is differentiated from the other two, and its conceptual and linguistic relationships to them explored. The set-apart sacred is then clarified, and extended to include things set apart 1) by both individuals and social groups, and 2) because of both natural and supernatural association. A new typology of the sacred is introduced by intersecting these dimensions, a nomenclature is suggested, and the conceptual utility of the resulting constructs demonstrated by applying them to texts from the New York Times and other discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512498 |