RE220 Chapter Notes -Fornication, Puritans, The17
Document Summary
The sacralization of christmas commerce: relationship that christmas is a christian holy day and secular occasion is paradoxical. Consumer materialism challenges non-materialistic values of christian theology: world s preparation is fundamentally about commerce. The church s preparation is focused on the birth of him who is the word made flesh incarnate among us. Opposition of sacred and profane values in the secular world: sacred and profane have interacted and evolved over time in ways that have had substantial impacts on both the religious and commercial organization. Not true, commercial aspect has come to dominate religious. Definitions of the sacred and the profane: evans(2003) defined sacred as. Including divine being or sense of ultimate reality of truth. Durkheim does not necessarily have to be connection to supernatural or to formal religion: pull together group mentally/physically, shared creation and evocation of emotionally valenced symbols, social product based on collective beliefs/practices, profane. Mundane, ordinary, everyday states in the world.
