In chapter one of his book “The Sacred & Profane: The Nature of Religion,” author Mircea Eliade introduces the conceptual and religious importance of sacred space on an individual and worldly level. He begins by discussing the differences between religious man and nonreligious man and how those variations relate to the ideas within sacred space and profane space. Eliade defines a nonreligious man as one “who rejects the sacrality of the world, who accepts a profane existence, divested of all religious presuppositions” (Eliade 23). In doing so, these types of man live in a world that preserves profane space, one of no importance: a world that is shapeless and unstructured with an unlimited number of “neutral places” accessible (Eliade 24). In
