User:Neoksaal/Personal Reader/The Bare Facts of Ritual

by Jonathan Z. Smith History of Religions, Vol. 20, No. 1/2, Twentieth Anniversary Issue (Aug. - Nov.,1980), pp. 112-127
Published by: The University of Chicago Press

recommended by Lidia

temple

"pivoting of the sacred."

described by Van Gennep in Les Rites de passage (1909)

there is nothing that is inherently sacred or profane. These are not substantive categories, but rather situational or relational categories, mobile boundaries which shift according to the map being employed. There is nothing that is in-itself sacred, only things sacred-in-relation-to.