The Sacred and The Profane

“The Sacred and the Profane” is a literary work written by Mircea Eliade, and translated from Greek to English by Willard Trask. It is a text that helps to differentiate the relationship between the sacred and the profane thoughts that we have as humans and people of a rational thinking socity. Coming from page thirty nine, Eliade says that, “This same symbolism of the center explains other series of cosmological images and religious beliefs. Among …

…the feelings that accompany the feelings that having a religion give you. These structures are built for the use of a place of worship and as a place where people can come too to have a sense of belonging. Religion and the places that humans worship there religion are both very sacred ideas and places. Could there be religion without these monasteries, of course; but could there be these sanctuaries with out religion, no way.