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What is Understanding Sacred and Profane about?
The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade attempts to describe how religious people experience the sacred. He shows that primitive people do not worship natural objects but believe they can reveal the sacred. They are driven by a desire to live in the presence of gods. Eliade also explores how religious people experience space and time differently, seeing some spaces and times as sacred and connected to the divine. He examines common symbols of the sacred found in nature across religions, such as the sky,
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