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  <title><![CDATA[The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1968</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The sacred always manifests itself as a reality of a wholly different order from &quot;natural&quot; realities.  It is true that language naively expresses the tremendum, or majestas, or the mysterium fascinans by terms borrowed from the world of nature or from amn's secular mental life.  But ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1869153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36738175">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sort of boring--<br/><br/>I don't know, I was fascinated by the distinction between the sacred and the profane. Although lucidly written, the book didn't engage me throughout. He has interesting things to say and makes interesting comments about the religious man and the modern man, but most of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36738175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65712014">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 31 17:49:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 31 18:06:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every new initiate to any religion eventually finds themselves at a point when they're no longer satisfied by &quot;Because God said so!&quot; as the only answer to every question they ask.  This book was recommended to me at a point when I was struggling to advance past the neophyte stage in my fai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65712014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40283141">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I hope to one day read the whole book.  For now, one section was assigned for reading in my &quot;Ritual&quot; course at Pacifica.<br/>I loved it!<br/>&quot;Sacred Space and Making the World Sacred.&quot;<br/>Eliade demonstrates how whenever we make something, a home, a city, a church, we a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40283141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17038609">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 04 19:25:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 04 19:29:00 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeez, what an amazing read.  Made me analyze what truly defines the spiritual or the sacred in my life and put that into the context of space and time.  &quot;The homogeneity of time and space&quot; is the truth of the profane.  Eliade shows exactly how this breaks down in human activity.]]></body>
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    <review id="3420100">
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    <body><![CDATA[BO-RING.]]></body>
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    <review id="53037741">
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    <body><![CDATA[According to Mircea Eliade, there are two methods for studying religon. The first (and more common) approach focuses on the historical context surrounding religon. The second one deals with the phenomenology of religious experience. <u>The Sacred and The Profane</u> rests squarely on the latter method. As ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53037741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24855193">
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    <body><![CDATA[Eliade's study of sacredness was a fascinating if sometimes frustrating read. His most interesting moments were the discussions of sacred places and objects, and their origin in revelation. He argues that to be religious means that one experiences space (in general, not outer space) as a plane broke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24855193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20714942">
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    <body><![CDATA[Years ago, I was assigned this book in one of my university classes. I number it in my most memorable and personally influential works that I have ever read. At the time, I had just begun to study archaeology and had very little understanding of the concept of ethnocentricism. My personal way of thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20714942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58256286">
    <user id="210573">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seminal, as they say, work that compares, contrasts, and gives historical context to human concepts of holy, or sacred space (&quot;sacred ground&quot;, etc), time (holy calendars, seasonal ceremonies, etc), and actions (initiation rituals, etc), as opposed to the secular (or &quot;profane&quot;) eq...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58256286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41028898">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anthony]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic study putting religious experience at the heart of religious studies.]]></body>
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    <review id="62274409">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book many years ago in college.]]></body>
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    <review id="14354963">
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    <name><![CDATA[علی]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[اثری  از الیاده با نظریات شگفت در مورد تقدس و تقدیس، عمدتن در آیین مسیحیت، در حول و حوش مقدسین و مکان های مقدس، بررسی چگونگی تقدیس و تقدس در کلیسا، روایات و افسانه های...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14354963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64084236">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was not a fan of Eliade's theory.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read it already! ]]></body>
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    <review id="7142609">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it while I was reading this, but one day I put it down. Now I can't tell you what was so mesmerizing for me. Wait... wait... I think I was all caught up in the sacred time part of things. Once he moved past that, I was less interested. I like sacred time talk. Love Heschel's The Sabbath and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7142609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3344697">
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    <body><![CDATA[I just came back to my apartment from the Royal park in Oslo, where I finished reading this book. Much clearer and more accessible than some of his other books, and fascinating! Probably good as an introduction to Eliade's other works. I think the following quote can stand as a summary of Eliade's i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3344697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most amazing pieces on theology I have ever read. Eliada approaches religion not as a septic or with bias, but seeks to help us understand beliefs by establishing unique criteria for their comparison.  By focusing on HOW the believer expresses their beliefs instead of merely comparing the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35888137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was hard as hell for me to get through, being extraordinarily essentialistic in approach, but I'm really glad I gave it that fifth attempt because it really does teach you the history of academic ideas about religion. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gives really deep insight into 'nature of religion'. Opens new viewpoints on both ancient and modern religions and symbolism. Good supplementary lecture to lots of other books (eg. 'Dune' or 'The Wind-Up Bird').]]></body>
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