You may still believe that beautiful building is holy, but probably not in its “thingness.” You think it remains a holy place because the people, by willing it to be so, have given the ordinary material this value. It is holy not because it is in itself ontologically bound to the eternal but because human minds have given it meaning, willing to nam

One hypothesis is that creativity comes from our need to make things special. And this relates to worship because worship allows us to identify things in order to make them special.

Selon Eliade, le monde occidental moderne est la première culture de l’histoire de l’humanité qui s’est débrouillée pour extraire le caractère sacré du temps et de l’espace et pour produire un monde entièrement profane, pratique et efficace. C’est ce monde que les fondamentalistes religieux trouvent insupportable et qu’ils veulent parfois combattre

“There is nothing that is sacred in itself, only things sacred in relation,”31 we can infer that while Facebook is not inherently sacred, users can make it so—or at least sanctify an individual’s page—simply by treating it or relating to it as such.