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Exploring Sacred Spaces and Peak Experiences in Anthropology

Dive into the realm of sacred spaces, peak experiences, and the anthropology of magic, witchcraft, and religion. Discover the profound significance of the "sacred" in contrast to the "profane" and unravel Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs with its peak experiences that transcend time and space.

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Exploring Sacred Spaces and Peak Experiences in Anthropology

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  1. The AnthropologyofMagic, Witchcraft,andReligion 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’sHierarchy 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 (1908-1970)

  7. The Basic Structure of Sacred Space “sacred” “profane”

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

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

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

  11. Route of the Hajj

  12. Stages of the Hajj

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