Hannah Grimes
Profaning Vital Experience
One of our class discussions addressed the difference in how we view daily activities as compared to the way primitive people use them as ritual. The idea that parts of our lives are non-sacred is a relatively modern concept. Eliade believes that al vital life experiences have been de-sacralized in the sense that we extracted the religious significance from activities such a eating, drinking, sex, work, and play. Each of these has a certain significance at its core; for example, the need for play represents something innate in us. Even our mass consumption of fast food can be seen as sacrilegious. According to Eliade’s perspective our modern western culture has profaned these once-sacred acts and can longer experience the same communion with the divine as primitive peoples.
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