ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, Eliade was seen to have a specific conception of religion based on his structural analysis of the foundational experience of the sacred. Myths reveal experiences of the sacred and express the universal structure of the dialectic of the sacred and the profane. It is the universal structure of the sacralization, as formulated in Eliade's dialectic of the sacred, that allows Eliade to differentiate myths and other religious phenomena from nonreligious phenomena.
