Term
Desacralization
used in 14 texts across the archive
“Secularization and desacralization is ultimately de-ritualization. The myths and ideas can’t be sustained without the ritual precisely because those myths and ideas were nothing more than representations ensuring that the rituals and the community performing them could be deemed the same over time as, of course, the communities and the rituals themselves changed.”
In use
“Secularization and desacralization is ultimately de-ritualization.”
“A broader desacralization is necessary before “art” can take on some kind of independence relative to the sacred, but until that point aesthetic considerations would be critical to representations of the sacred.”
“Here is where the not reactionary, not even conservative, but well armored, resistance to the corrosions of desacralization are to be found(ed).”