desacralized

It is an appropriate term for works of art which though supposedly "desacralized" still emanate a sense of foreboding and anxiety a Japanese photographer originally approached by the Fondation to catalog the exhibition refused the commission after viewing the bocio.

Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell Tobias Grey 2011

"Everything that Jacques brought back from Africa had been desacralized," she says.

Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell Tobias Grey 2011

This year we celebrate the desacralized "holidays" amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin -- fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed.

Mad Max and the Meltdown 2008

Western Christianity desacralized the world, setting up artificial distinctions like “materialism” and “non-materialism”, which mean little beyond various conventional meanings.

Paul Nelson makes a bizarre argument - The Panda's Thumb 2007

The accounts of the Children's Crusade alternated between a belief in the youthful participants 'inherent goodness or purity and a criticism of that belief, one that desacralized childhood by viewing children as all too flawed.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Syrian royals bent on Hellenizing the region had desacralized the Temple in Jerusalem and were moving an idol of Zeus into Jewish villages, a Jew made a sacrifice at the alter of Zeus and all heck broke loose in the town.

Jonathan Maccabee and the Success of Diplomacy. Nominate Democrat of the Year here! Ellen Beth Gill 2006

Syrian royals bent on Hellenizing the region had desacralized the Temple in Jerusalem and were moving an idol of Zeus into Jewish villages, a Jew made a sacrifice at the alter of Zeus and all heck broke loose in the town.

Archive 2006-12-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

We don't find in Sri Aurobindo the despair Carlyle was said to have felt "in the face of a nature dis-godded and language desacralized."

Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

We don't find in Sri Aurobindo the despair Carlyle was said to have felt "in the face of a nature dis-godded and language desacralized."

For all time and for all mankind Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

But it may be that the most trivial and least accountable motive for wanting history, that pertaining to ancestor-worship (in its desacralized but not always diminished forms) and to the authorization of one's present situation, has not disappeared.

Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002