Sacred-profane dichotomy

The Renaissance, which began in the 1300’s and lasted up until around the 1600’s, was a movement which sparked an enormous increase in artistic experimentation and emphasis on the human figure. During this time, many paintings contained Christian imagery and connotations, whether outright or implied. Two paintings during this time that illustrate several concepts and depictions are Sacred and Profane Love by Titian (or Tiziano in Italian) and Velazquez’s Venus with Her Mirror. These two paintings include imagery that is both secular and non-secular, but one leans more toward one side of the spectrum than the other. This paper will define some key terms used in the aforementioned paintings, analyze the secular and non-secular imagery of each…

In Durkheim's theorization, the sacred symbolizes the interests of the group, which embodies in sacred group symbols, or totems and taboos; whereas the profane exemplifies mundane individual concerns. The dichotomy, as Durkheim puts it, between sacred/profane is not equivalent to good/evil. The sacred can either be good or evil; the profane could be either too. Thus, VidûSaka’s sacredness, if one judges it from Georges Bataille’s point of view, can only be conceived of through his…

Summary for the Structuralist Theory In “Reading Lessons: An Introduction to Theory”, Scott Carpenter explains the structuralism, and what the structuralist focuses on. Structuralism is defined as “a multifaceted group of theories with varied and disparate goals” (Carpenter 27). It focuses on the structure of the message or the text which includes “big ticket themes”, repeated plot, repeated images, and binary oppositions. The “big ticket themes” is like “Man versus Society, Boys meets Girls,…

OT2100-Week Three-Laws in Leviticus Paper According to Victor P. Hamilton (2015), “In Chs. 17-27 the primary focus is not so much on how God’s people are to worship as on how they are to live; those who worship a holy God will aspire to live holy lives and appropriate the resources that a holy God makes available to them to so order their lives” (p. 282). In Leviticus Chapter 19:19, recorded are laws against mixtures. It is not clear as to why this group of laws would appear here especially…

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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Mother Cabrini, was an Italian saint who was sent to America to help the immigrants. She took a stand for all the immigrants by helping and taking care of them when others didn’t, and because of that, she became the first American saint. Frances, or Francesca, was born on July 15, 1850 in S’ant Angelo Lodigiano. Her parents were Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). Her family was a very nice, but poor family.…

greater, and it takes place in two symbiotic realms: the sacred and the profane. In Durkheim’s perspective, the relation between sacred and profane, and how such categories and conceptualizations have been applied in history in such “profoundly differentiated or so radically opposed to one another”(Appelrouth and Edles 2015:125) serve to understand the nature of the desire of humans to reach from the mundane and profane realm to the superior realm of the sacred. For Durkheim, in order to…

Durkheim hypothesizes that parts known as rites, determined by modes of actions, and parts known as beliefs, found in collective representations, connect the phenomenon of the sacred with social life (pp. 50, 54, & 412-417). In regards to Locke’s assertion of religion as salvation of a soul and focus on the otherworldly Durkheim instead argues that “religion is more than the idea of gods and spirits “further specifying that religion cannot be defined exclusively by them (p.412). Religion to…

Vaibhav Thakkar 104163889 AN E 10W Dis 1D Jerusalem as a Holy City Jersualem, the city, for nearly three thousand years, has been considered to be one of the most influential and integral spiritual centers in the world for three of the largest Abrahamic faiths of Islam, Chrsitianity, and Judaism. Given Jerusalem’s rich, deep cultural connections and diverse historical and religious past, it becomes very simple to infer that this city has become sanctified and venerated to such an extent that it…

This divides the world into two domains- one containing all that is sacred and the other all that is profane, this is a characteristic of religious thought as it is a social idea rather than a natural one. It is believed that there is no culture without this distinction. Beliefs, myths, dogmas, and legends are representations that describe the sacred. Sacred things are not simply things that are called gods or spirit, a rock or a tree can be sacred, a rite can have sacredness. Sacred is set…