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Philosophy of Religion Sacred and Profane 1 Introduction 3 When the Sacred Manifests Itself 4 Two Modes of Being in the World 6 The Sacred and History 7 CHAPTER I - Sacred Space and Making the World Sacred 9 Homogeneity of Space and Hierophany 9 Theophanies and Signs 11 Chaos and Cosmos 13 The Center of the World 17 City-Cosmos 23 Undertaking the Creation of the World 25 Cosmogony and Building Sacrifice 27 Temple, Basilica, Cathedral 29 Some Conclusions 31 CHAPTER II - Sacred Time and Myths 33 Profane Duration and Sacred Time 33 Templum-Tempus 35 Annual Repetition of the Creation 37 Regeneration through Return to the Time of Origins 39 Festival Time 41 Periodically Becoming Contemporary with the Gods 45 Reactualizing Myths 49 Sacred History 52 CHAPTER III - The Sacredness of Nature and Cosmic Religion 57 The Celestial Sacred and the Uranian Gods 58 The Remote God 59 The Religious Experience of Life 61 Perenniality of Celestial Symbols 63 Structure of Aquatic Symbolism 63 Paradigmatic History of Baptism 65 Universality of Symbols 67 Terra Mater 68 Woman, Earth, and Fecundity 71 Symbolism of the Cosmic Tree 72 Desacralization of Nature 74 Other Cosmic Hierophanies 76 CHAPTER IV - Hum

Author

Mircea Eliade

Language

EN