“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are,” negotiator Herb Cohen says.1 This saying could tell us why “sacred” is hard to define. Is it what people hold sacred? It follows then that “sacred” refers not to a phenomenon regarded as sacred by a group of people but to what those people believe to be sacred. For that reason, agreeing on a single definition of “sacred” at a global level or even among a group of people who share the same belief of sacredness becomes difficult, as followers of religions all over the world agree and disagree upon many things.
