Belief
The Sacred
Explore in the Atlas →The shared belief that certain places, objects, times and acts are set apart from the ordinary and charged with ultimate meaning — the value at the heart of religious and ritual life. Drawing on Eliade's distinction of sacred and profane, the sacred organises cosmology and orientation and is the value that temples, shrines, cathedrals and consecrated grounds are built to house, mark and protect.
Cosmos Ritual Meaning
Details
- Register
- Instituted
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmology
- Subject
- More than human
- Cosmological orientation
- Axis mundi
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- Oral song embodied
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Cross cultural cosmological
Connections
- legitimates The Instituted Imaginary
Sources
- n.d..
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Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Sacred." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/belief/the-sacred/. Accessed July 17, 2026.