Reading: Eliade (20-47); Woodward (p. 28)

We explore spiritual and secular places that seek to fix or displace time in public life, discussing a range of topics including monuments and pilgrimage. We will also explore the local debate over one community's desire to blur public and private experiences of the sacred.

Website:

Crafting the Sacred atop the Profane

Off-campus webpages

Terms used The Sacred and the Profane, Kelley L. Ross - provides useful vocabulary.

Mircea Eliade biography, Bryan Renni - "Eliade was educated as a philosopher. He published extensively in the history of religions and acted as editor-in-chief of Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Religion. The influence of his thought, through these works and through thirty years as director of History of Religions department at Chicago University, is considerable."

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