1. The Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion
Sacred Spaces

2. the “sacred” is defined
in opposition to
the “profane”

3. The “Profane”
The everyday
The normal
The “here” and “now”

4. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs

5. Peak Experiences
Involve: "feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of great ecstasy and wonder and awe, and the loss of placing in time and space“ (Maslow 1970, p. 164)

6. Peak Experiences Altered sense of self Altered sense of time
Wonder/awe
Labile affect
Loosening of associations
Ego disintegration
“Everything is connected”
Abraham Maslow
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7. The Basic Structure of Sacred Space
“profane”

11. Mount Meru World System
(the Buddhist cosmology)
Macrocosm the structure of the cosmos
Microcosm
the structure of each person’s heart-mind

12. “rite of passage” sacred world profane world initial social status
liminality (the threshold)
separation
reintegration
initial social status
subsequent social status
profane world

13. The Hajj The largest annual pilgrimage on the planet
Islamic calendar begins in (the Christian) year 622
Timing based on lunar calendar

14. Route of the Hajj

15. Stages of the Hajj