Author(s)

Yaser Mirdamadi

Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Mircea Eliade’s conception of the sacred, confining it to religious sacred, is criticized. A more comprehensive model of the sacred, which includes non-religious sacred, is developed and human love is suggested as a good candidate for non-religious sacred.

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred, Love

Mirdamadi, Y. (2015) The Plurality of the Sacred—Critical Remarks on Mircea Eliade’s Conception of the Sacred. Open Journal of Philosophy, 5, 397-402. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2015.57048.