Sacrum w kulturze współczesnej

Abstract

This paper touches on the various types of the sacred present in the contemporary culture. The Polish sacred humanistic research placed sacrum in opposition to the profanum (according to the tradition of anthropological thought and religious studies). At the beginning of the twenty-first century a differentiation within this category has emerged. In the popular culture and in the works dedicated two human’s changing situation in the world today. Sacrum is associated with the profanum on the principle of mutual penetration or replacement and takes the form referred to as sacrofanum. In contrast, in a religious reality it remains a distinct value, though, it appears in two versions – as an unequivocally good sanctum (holiness) or as ordinary, ambivalent sacred, consisting of positive and negative elements. The need to distinguish between holiness and sacred is explained in present-day theological and philosophical thought. The ambivalent nature of sacrum may also be seen outside the religious denomination. In the contemporary art with high aspirations the sacred value focuses mainly on the negative side and evenis considered as the anti-sacrum. After all, despite the axiological and apophatic erring this work receives the cultural justification in the universal apocatastasis belief.