No unified sacred domain organized premodern social life
Evidence
But the sacred had not been endowed with such a function in the past, and there was as yet no unitary domain in social life and thought that the concept of âthe sacredâ organized. Instead there were disparate places, objects, and times, each with its qualities, and each requiring conduct and words appropriate to it. â Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 131
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the critique of âreligionâ as a singular category â here applied to âthe sacredâ specifically.