desacralized
Stripped of holiness
Desacralized means stripped of sacred status or religious significance.
What was once holy, consecrated, or set apart for worship has been made ordinary or secular.
A desacralized church might become a concert hall or apartment building.
The term appears in discussions of secularization: Modern society has desacralized institutions that once commanded reverence.
Nonreligious, worldly
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
- temporalRelating to chronology
- civilMinimally polite
- nonreligiousNot involving worship
mundane · lay · humanistic · civic · governmental · public · state · privatized
Stripped of legendary content
- rationalizedInvented justification for
- disenchantmentLoss of cherished belief
- WeberGerman scholarly surname
- modernityBeing of present times
bureaucratized · mechanized · routinized · stripped · hollowed · emptied · drained · loss of meaning
Place of Christian worship
- templeSacred worship structure
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- shrineSacred devotional place
- altarSacred ritual table
chapel · monastery · cathedral · mosque · synagogue · relic · tabernacle · font
Made foul or impure
- violatedBroke a rule
- despoiledViolently stripped bare
- sulliedMade morally unclean
- taintedContaminated, made impure
corrupted · polluted · debased · dishonored · vandalized · degraded · contaminated · blasphemy
Attacking cherished beliefs
- mockingScornfully imitating or ridiculing
- satiricalMocking through exaggeration
- subversiveSeeking to undermine authority
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
defiant · provocative · taboo-breaking · boundary-crossing · countercultural · radical · avant-garde · postmodern
secular
Nonreligious, worldly
nonreligious · mundane · lay · humanistic · civic · governmental · public · state · privatized · commercialized
demythologized
Stripped of legendary content
- rationalizedInvented justification for
- disenchantmentLoss of cherished belief
- WeberGerman scholarly surname
modernity · bureaucratized · mechanized · routinized · stripped · hollowed · emptied · drained · loss of meaning · alienation
church
Place of Christian worship
altar · chapel · monastery · cathedral · mosque · synagogue · relic · tabernacle · font · cemetery
defiled
Made foul or impure
tainted · corrupted · polluted · debased · dishonored · vandalized · degraded · contaminated · blasphemy · defilement
iconoclastic
Attacking cherished beliefs
- mockingScornfully imitating or ridiculing
- satiricalMocking through exaggeration
- subversiveSeeking to undermine authority
transgressive · defiant · provocative · taboo-breaking · boundary-crossing · countercultural · radical · avant-garde · postmodern · deconstructed
desacralizedconsecrated
Declared sacred through ritual
hallowed · sanctified · sacred · blessed · sacralized
sacred, sacrament, consecrate, desecrate, sacrilege, consecration, consecrated, sacrilegious, sacral