Santeria

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Religion

 

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Betty D

 

Date added:

December 19, 2012

 

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University

 

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B

 

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2 / 419

 

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He comes up with this notion of "wholly other", means that sacred is unlike anything else, its supernatural, it's a reality but not a very evident one. The simple reason why Eliade uses the term heirophany is because according to him there isn't any word which could clearly describe what sacred means...
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The first definition he comes up with is that sacred is not profane. In other words its not what the natural world see as ordinary, but something extraordinary. In his process of trying to distinguish between sacred and profane, he develops this terminology of hierophany. The whole idea behind this to come up with some sort of basic understanding as to what the sacred meant and if had to be described in definite words, what would it mean...
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