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This article aims at the archeology (the level of what made [an event, situation, or phenomenon] possible and a position avoiding to connect change to causal processes) of sacred in the processes of transitions from the pre-Modern cosmos where the sacred was and became meaningful through its meaning and connection into the Post/modern village, in which the sacred has been disjointed from its contexts and reconstructed in a highly weird manner. And depending on these features, the thesis of the article is that sacred is a search for meaning and telos in being and existence in every era. This is because life without sacred is devoid of its splendor; thence, the continuity of life is meaningless as well. With sacred, individual and societies somehow compensate on their part the wish and will to be eternal and join into the life of consoling world of collective therapy through sacred. On the other hand, with respect to the search and construction of the sacred vary according to the societal stratification of the masses and those who uphold power. Hence, it seems appropriate to analyze the demand and manifestation of the sacred as follows: (a) sacred and the search for the sacred pertaining to the needs, emotions, and wants of the grassroots; (b) sacred and the construction of the sacred based on the fantasies and whims of those who uphold power or historical context shaped in accord with power-centric hierarchy with reliance upon the needs and emotions of the masses. This article tries to shed light firstly on both the conception of sacred in polytheist milieux in the pre-Modern world and the viewpoint of the sacred within the Abrahamic tradition in general, and Islam in particular; secondly on how the sacred is disjointed from the domain of metaphysics and is formatted within secular molds in the processes of Modernity and how in the Post/modern era the sacred is molded through the paradox of secular-but-sacred mechanism and then marketed in the Post/modern mart. The Modern processes that had sent the sacred into exile firstly reconstructed its own sacredness, and then through Post/modern blurriness it turned the sacred into secular-but-sacred freakiness. Succinctly, in the processes of Modernity, the sacred things, sacralizations and sacralized things are profanized in accord with the partitioned ontology in Modern times; whereas in the Post/modern situation and historical mode, the sacred is returning to the home in the forms of secular-but-sacred nature. Nevertheless, archaically-rooted neo-pagan reflexes, it would seem, ever postpone or suspend the natural and normal manifestation and construction of the sacred and this historical state seems to be the destiny of the 21st century.

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