sacralization


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sa·cral·ize

 (sā′krə-līz′, săk′rə-)
tr.v. sa·cra·lized, sa·cra·liz·ing, sa·cra·liz·es
To make sacred.

sa′cral·i·za′tion (-lĭ-zā′shən) n.
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sacralization

(ˌsækrəlaɪˈzeɪʃən) or

sacralisation

n
(Anthropology & Ethnology) the act of making something sacred
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Translations

sa·cral·i·za·tion

n. sacralización, fusión de la quinta vértebra lumbar con el sacro.
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In her book Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural (2012), Victoria Nelson has argued that the contemporary vampire has also gone through a process of sacralization, so that the modern vampire may be understood as not only secularized and in keeping with sf, but also religious and magical.
The presence and significance of these narratives in society through ritualization and sacralization was such that belief might have been, or rather, have seemed indivisible from the ritual or the religious practice.
Hunt's passion for all things underground often segues into a sacralization of subterranean landscapes and the lore and rites that have historically been associated with them.
Among their topics are a revived God in The Antichrist: Nietzsche and the sacralization of natural life, Nietzsche's antichristian ethics: Renaissance vert<`u and the project of reevaluation, Nietzsche's quest for the historical Jesus, Nietzsche and the critique of religion, resurgent nobility and the problem of false consciousness, and reading Dostoevsky in Turin: the Antichrist's accelerationism.
They identify this re-emergence as the sacralization of politics.
"Secularization and Sacralization Deconstructed and Reconstructed." In The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion, edited by James A Beckford & Nicholas J Demerath III, 57-80.
(3) For a study on sacralization of space see Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide and Stefan Brinks' Sacred Sites and Holy Places: Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape Through Time and Space.
Flores's sacralization of these spaces includes the Pink Floyd-esque images of, for example, "Foundries for contorted things, because professionally contorted beings practice their rites inside, turn out fetuses there, nationalist demons" (C, 73).
However limited and limiting it may be, such a sacralization can furnish a "legitimate" reward for her, but the construction of such a notion faces a series of setbacks during the process of caretaking.
(1-3) The spectrum of these transitions include: (a) accessory L5-S1 articulations between the transverse elements, (b) unilateral/bilateral L5-S1 fusions (sacralization), or (c) partial/complete separation between S1-S2 elements (lumbarization).
This is a form of sacralization of "Shakespeare" as an icon of high culture, but one that can be interpreted as self-defeating: on the other side of her desk, on the side of her "audience," the beauty of her Shakespeare may sound like a cacophonous amalgam of words that fails to reach its destination and defies translation.
In so doing, the article focuses on four main themes: (1) sacralization of modern knowledge, science, and education; (2) militarism and centrism; (3) statism and corporatism; and, (4) ethnic nationalism and Turkism.