The deficit myth of our culture. Confirming the Sacred

• Authors: Otilia Sîrbu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The term sacred can define itself by the influence it has. It can also be quantified simply by reporting it to other realities such as the profane, the mysterious, the absolute, the infinite and even the possible. From this analogy, the most successful, most imposing collocation is the one made from the sacred and the profane. The opposition between the two underlines two realities, giving the former a rightful and expected brilliance, and the latter the well-defined role it has taken upon itself

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ars Aeterna
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17-22

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-14

Contributors

author

Otilia Sîrbu

• Department of Letters and Foreign Languages, Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Nature, University Hyperion of Bucharest Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/aa-2015-0003