The Magic Circle
The Sacred and the Profane
In his seminal 1957 The Sacred and the Profane, Romanian historian Mircea Eliade discusses the nature of religious experience. For the religious person, Eliade argues, the sacred becomes as a “fixed point,” a central frame of reference, around which their lived experience revolves.
To quote Eliade:
In his seminal 1957 The Sacred and the Profane, Romanian historian Mircea Eliade discusses the nature of religious experience. For the religious person, Eliade argues, the sacred becomes as a “fixed point,” a central frame of reference, around which their lived experience revolves.
To quote Eliade:
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