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- ject of veneration, but through venerating sacred things, people come into contact with the essence of bel... he distinction between sacred and profane. Sacred things are things set aside and forbidden. Profane things are normal, everyday things with no special meaning or importance
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- t what it is like from the inside. We observe the things people, do, say, and make in order to figure out ... facts. Hence, we must “[c]onsider social facts as things” (Durkheim 1964 [1895]: 14). * The essence of soc... sacred." He argues that all societies define some things as sacred and some things as profane. ## Durkheim on religion and society ## * Religion is essential t
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- n each of my shoulders, each whispering different things in my ears. * Durkheim looks at society as a tot... ructures are particualr ways of embodying all the things that people in society value. ## A brief, sele... atter Day Saints ("Mormons"). What do all these things have in common? ## Max Weber, key ideas about r... nguish the different bases on which people accept things as true, convincing, legitimate. Accepting someth
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- ” Material World: A Global Hub for Thinking about Things. February 9. http://www.materialworldblog.com/201... there is no such category as religion? ## * Are things we label as 'religion' too diverse to have anythi
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- olutely convinced of something. Either way, I bet things look a lot different now. You should be proud, be... -explanatory as possible. That can involve saying things you may not think you have to or should: * "In
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- ity: Those Canadian Students Have a Point.” First Things. November 30. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/fi
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- ery day, and invoked to explain any number of bad things, from minor incidents to death. "Witchcraft is no
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- ” Material World: A Global Hub for Thinking about Things. February 9. http://www.materialworldblog.com/201
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- # References ## Austin, John L. 1962. How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures. 2nd ed. C