Sacred on the view of religions
Sacred has many definitions according to individual’s belief but in many religions it referred to as being holy or revered due to sanctity. On the religious view or anthropological view, sacred can be anemic view on a certain collection of thoughts and cultural practices. In many communities, many objects that are referred to as sacred are meant for spiritual and worship or service to the gods. The term sacred has a long history of origin from Latin (sacrum) which was used to refer to anything referred to as God or has the same capacity. In modern term, the word holy adopted in 11 century tends to mean the same thing with sacred. The word holy is also applied in general context when referring to …show more content…
According to sociology, the word sacred is viewed in representing the certain interest of society such as the unity aspect. According to sociology, sacred can either be evil or be good or can be either. In Buddhism, sanctity is more of a noble people with a belief that these people are called to increase sanctity getting the term sacred or holy (Arnal & McCutcheon, 2012).
For the Christian world, much of Jewish culture is adopted when defining the word culture. The word sacred tends to be much broader with an inclusion of certain behaviors, certain places, times, days and events. In Islam, the word sacred is more understood as forbidden e.g. the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. In Judaism sacred is a state which contains a wide spectrum such as the wall of Jerusalem, holy of holies, court of women, court of priests and the temple mount with those selected by God to serve in the temple being referred to as sacred.
What is common in everything that is sacred is that it has something that is extraordinary such as mysterious powers, something free of what many doctrines considers as unclean. Also anything referred to as sacred is associated with both the evil and also good due to its mysterious
Sacred has many definitions according to individual’s belief but in many religions it referred to as being holy or revered due to sanctity. On the religious view or anthropological view, sacred can be anemic view on a certain collection of thoughts and cultural practices. In many communities, many objects that are referred to as sacred are meant for spiritual and worship or service to the gods. The term sacred has a long history of origin from Latin (sacrum) which was used to refer to anything referred to as God or has the same capacity. In modern term, the word holy adopted in 11 century tends to mean the same thing with sacred. The word holy is also applied in general context when referring to …show more content…
According to sociology, the word sacred is viewed in representing the certain interest of society such as the unity aspect. According to sociology, sacred can either be evil or be good or can be either. In Buddhism, sanctity is more of a noble people with a belief that these people are called to increase sanctity getting the term sacred or holy (Arnal & McCutcheon, 2012).
For the Christian world, much of Jewish culture is adopted when defining the word culture. The word sacred tends to be much broader with an inclusion of certain behaviors, certain places, times, days and events. In Islam, the word sacred is more understood as forbidden e.g. the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. In Judaism sacred is a state which contains a wide spectrum such as the wall of Jerusalem, holy of holies, court of women, court of priests and the temple mount with those selected by God to serve in the temple being referred to as sacred.
What is common in everything that is sacred is that it has something that is extraordinary such as mysterious powers, something free of what many doctrines considers as unclean. Also anything referred to as sacred is associated with both the evil and also good due to its mysterious