Abstract
In the rituals of pre-modern societies that Douglas discusses in Purity and Danger, the sacred was an integral part of community and society. The ‘sacred’ and the ‘profane’ are terms in religious, anthropological and cultural discourse that are used to organize reality into different realms of experience, where it is understood that the realms are separate and only come into contact with one another during ritualized activities. Rituals are regulatory mechanisms that control the experiences of the profane and the sacred, where the profane is the everyday realm of working life and the sacred is the realm of a different order. The sacred involves the disruption and dislocation of the spatio-temporal boundaries of the everyday, which opens up a qualitatively different experience of being.
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