But he stressed also that history needs a complement in phenomenology, which is the effort to place these human activities within certain general forms, or fixed patterns, that can be discerned by the trained observer [since] it can be applied to the actions, institutions, or ideas of any culture or tradition, enabling us to compare, contrast, connect, or distinguish them across all times and places" (272). ... Durkheim associates the sacred with the clan or society and the profane to individual; however Eliade "define the sacred as the sphere not of society, but of the supernatural...
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