Lane reading

Kim Adney 3-19-10
Sacred places are inevitably more than any one of their opposing applicants might want to make of them. Lane talks about how they function not only as a battleground of warring voices but also as a way of nesting religious and nonreligious concerns within each other. Sometimes sacred sites are able to function completely apart from any institutionalized religious constitution or any dominant cultural pattern of social religion. What matters in defining such places as holy is the presence of ritual activity and symbolic meaning.