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She says hoodoo stores are corrupting the spiritual belief system by selling inferior, nonsacred products and focusing on alleged quick fixes to problems.

Need a Job? Losing Your House? Who Says Hoodoo Can't Help? Cameron McWhirter 2010

But surely if we were talking about any nonsacred book, that is what the conclusions of modern biblical criticism would add up to.

Scholem a heretic? Really? | Jewschool 2007

Apparently, however, all these usages of purification by fasting go back to the idea that the body, which is identified with the human personality, is in its ordinary state nonsacred [386] and therefore unfit for the performance of a sacred act, and that it is rendered especially unfit by contact with a ritually unclean thing.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

[386] It is by nature nonsacred, and so remains so long as it has not been made sacred by the special ceremonies that abound in savage communities.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

Body, the, as seat of life, 26; regarded as by nature nonsacred, 205

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

Christianity, and Islam, and in minor bodies like the Essenes, Mormons, and others, but not among the Chinese, Greeks, and Romans; Brahmanism occupies a middle ground -- it regards the Veda and the accessory books as entitled to great reverence, but has never drawn the line between sacred and nonsacred writings so sharply as has been done in the group named above.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

In general, sacred seasons, times of great communal ceremonies, demand the avoidance of ordinary pursuits, which, it is feared, may imperil the success of the ceremonies by necessitating contact with things infected or nonsacred.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

Ordinary food, nourishing the body and becoming a part of it, thus maintains it in its nonsacred character.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

During the monthlong public comment period that begins today, the archdiocese says it will accept feedback on its plan to allow nonsacred uses of the buildings.

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Those who know me observe that I will happily quote sacred texts as well as nonsacred texts when they have pragmatic application.

Pax Nortona - A Blog by Joel Sax 2009