Ordinarily Sacred (Studies in Religion & Culture)

Ordinarily Sacred aims to illuminate the sacred quality of experience that on the surface appears mundane or secular. Through stories metaphors and images the author claims we discover the religious or the sacred in the activities of ordinary life - dreams play and memory. In these activites the author suggests we create texts make meaning and imagine reality in such a way as to lend symbolic significance to life. She also suggests that through these activities we define our relation to the divine and to one another.