Anthropology › Section M · Religion and culture › Topic M.2
Symbolic and sacred space
Religions are full of symbols, and many of the most powerful are places: a doorway, a shrine, a mountain, a whole homeland. Anthropologists ask how people mark places as sacred, how sacredness is made and remade through use, and what happens when sacred places collide with other interests.
In this topic
- Signs and symbols
- Key symbols
- From space to place
- Eliade's sacred place
- Worked example: reading a mosque
- Sacred places at home
- Places made by practice
- Country and the Dreaming
- Worked example: Juukan Gorge
- Sacred time
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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