sacred vs. profane It is 7:30 AM on Monday morning and much of corporate America is beginning to get dressed for work. Suits are no longer necessary in the workplace, since many companies and organizations have shifted toward “business casual” attire. Everyday is now “casual day” and instead a sport jacket, as it has so cleverly been labeled, is appropriate. A tie is no longer essential and a suit is a bit too much for the …showed first 75 words of 1441 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1441 total…a sport jacket. It is not until you enter the professional golfing community and collectively hold the beliefs that the “green jacket” is sacred in all that it proclaims that you can begin to understand and appreciate this shared conviction. At the core of this understanding is a religious representation that expresses a collective reality. It is nothing more than a shared religious belief, and at the root of every religion is simply a theory.