sacred objects and places

Scope Note

Conception of sanctity (e.g., possession by an indwelling or frequenting spirit, infusion with impersonal supernatural power); idols and fetishes; extraordinary objects (e.g., bezoar stones, albino animals, mandrake roots); etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 770 religious beliefs

Related Terms

• 150 behavior processes and personality
• 182 functional/adaptational interpretations
• 577 ethics
• 769 cult of the dead
• 779 theological systems
• 789 magic
• 795 religious denominations
• 812 philosophy
• 829 ethnosociology
• 869 transmission of beliefs