Work
The Sacred and the Profane
Explore in the Atlas →Explores how ritual spaces are consecrated (hierophany, axis mundi), creating centres of meaning distinct from ordinary space.
Ritual
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmology
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Axis mundi
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Cross cultural cosmological
Connections
- articulates Sacred & Profane (Axis Mundi, Hierophany)
Referenced by
- Mircea Eliade authored
Sources
- Mircea Eliade. Le Sacré et le profane (The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion). Rowohlt (English trans. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959), 1957.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Sacred and the Profane." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/the-sacred-and-the-profane/. Accessed July 17, 2026.