Profane (religion)
[13] In contrast, the sacred, or sacrum in Latin, encompasses all that exists beyond the everyday, natural world that people experience with their senses.As such, the sacred or numinous can inspire feelings of awe, because it is regarded as ultimately unknowable and beyond limited human abilities to perceive and comprehend.[citation needed] Modernization and the Enlightenment project have led to a secularisation of culture over the past few centuries – an extension of the profanum at the (often explicit) expense of the sacred.Modernism set out to bring myth and a sense of the sacred back into secular reality[19] — Wallace Stevens speaking for much of the movement when he wrote that "if nothing was divine then all things were, the world itself".[21] Psychology too has set out to protect the boundaries of the individual self from profane intrusion,[22] establishing ritual places for inward work[23] in opposition to the postmodern loss of privacy.
Unholy (disambiguation)Anthropology of religionAfterlifeAnimismAuguryCommunitasComparative religionDivinationDivine languageEvolutionary origin of religionFetishismGreat SpiritHenotheismInitiationLaying on of handsLiminalityMonotheismNympholepsyOraclePilgrimagePolytheismRite of passageRitualSacred languageSacred–profane dichotomySacred siteShamanismSoul dualismSuperstitionTheories about religionTranstheismVeneration of the deadCoral Gardens and Their MagicTreatise on the Apparitions ofSpirits and on Vampires or RevenantsNeo-PaganismAngakkuqBabaylanBobohizanJhākriPawangSlametanCargo cultGhost DanceHandsome LakeThe Elementary Formsof the Religious LifePurity and DangerMyth and ritualArchaeology of religion and ritualPoles in mythologyLived religionElite religionAugustin CalmetAkbar S. AhmedTalal AsadJoseph CampbellMary DouglasÉmile DurkheimMircea EliadeArnold van GennepRené GirardE. E. Evans-PritchardJames FrazerFustel de CoulangesClifford GeertzRobin HortonClaude Lévi-StraussRobert MarettSteven OzmentRoy RappaportSaba MahmoodMarshall SahlinsMelford SpiroStanley TambiahVictor TurnerEdward Burnett TylorDaniel Martin VariscoAnthony F. C. WallaceAnthropological Perspectives on ReligionFolkloreThe Hibbert JournalThe Journal of ReligionOceaniaReligionsEthnicfolk religionsAfro-American religionAlaska Native religionBöö mörgölChinese folk religionHanituKejawènNative American religionNoaidiShindoShamanism in SiberiaShintoTengrismTraditional African religionsBuddhismMahayanaNichirenPure LandShingonTheravadaTiantaiTibetanVajrayanaChristianityAdventismAnglicanismArmenian Apostolic ChurchBaptistsCalvinismCatholic ChurchCoptic OrthodoxyEastern OrthodoxyEthiopian OrthodoxyGreek OrthodoxyLutheranismMethodismNestorianismOriental OrthodoxyPentecostalismProtestantismQuakersRussian Orthodoxy