In the beginning of this novel Eliade introduces a claim very prematurely. Eliade claims that, whereas for non-religious man the spatial aspect of the world is basically experienced as uniformly neutral, for religious man it was experienced as non-homogeneous, partly sacred and partly not so. In particular, religious man experienced the world as having a sacred center and sought to live there. Eliade ensures his claim that modern, non-religious men experience the special aspect of his world as neutral. In addition, the later experiences particular locations as such as his place and time of birth are viewed as degraded religious experiences. In my experiences and learnings of religion, religious men want to achieve something spectacular, whether
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A first and clear example for us could be a church or a place for religions to gather. Inside of a church is considered sacred but the outside is profane. An equal example to a church in archaic cultures was the sacred enclosure, which expanded towards the sky, the world of the gods. Sacred places were revealed to religious men as coming from the divine or the ‘Gods. ” Sacred locations to me would obviously be a church. However, my father is an American Indian and his culture worshipped and saw nature as sacred. Native American cultures are very fascinating, but very few cultures still exist due to the near extinction of natives in the early 1500’s. In my previous experiencing Native American cultures, particularly their religions, I realized that nature to Indians is like Jesus to Christianity. They go hand in hand due to the fact of how natives cherish nature and what is beholds. I am a part of the Lumbee Indian tribe and I once found the need to explore their religion. Modern Lumbee Indians are Christian or Protestant. However, older or deceased Indians believed in the power of rituals and sacrifices. Sacrifices could be animal, food and human sacrifices. They proceeded to give nature what it wanted because of what nature did for the
A first and clear example for us could be a church or a place for religions to gather. Inside of a church is considered sacred but the outside is profane. An equal example to a church in archaic cultures was the sacred enclosure, which expanded towards the sky, the world of the gods. Sacred places were revealed to religious men as coming from the divine or the ‘Gods. ” Sacred locations to me would obviously be a church. However, my father is an American Indian and his culture worshipped and saw nature as sacred. Native American cultures are very fascinating, but very few cultures still exist due to the near extinction of natives in the early 1500’s. In my previous experiencing Native American cultures, particularly their religions, I realized that nature to Indians is like Jesus to Christianity. They go hand in hand due to the fact of how natives cherish nature and what is beholds. I am a part of the Lumbee Indian tribe and I once found the need to explore their religion. Modern Lumbee Indians are Christian or Protestant. However, older or deceased Indians believed in the power of rituals and sacrifices. Sacrifices could be animal, food and human sacrifices. They proceeded to give nature what it wanted because of what nature did for the