Excerpt: “The sacred, then, is what connects the two elements of religious belief that are the core themes of this book–the religious impulse and identification. Sacred things are objects that bind a religious community together, over time and at a time, in religious practices built around them; but they also point toward something beyond, toward the transcendent, however this is exactly conceived.”

Crane, Tim. (2017). The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheists Point of View. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.