The term sacred tends to be used interchangeably with a wide variety of terms:
terms like mystical, religious, divine, magical, and, most commonly, spiritual
and religious. In 2002, the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National
University ran a conference entitled ‘Locations of Spirituality: “Experiences”
and “Writings” of the “Sacred”’. All of these topics were addressed in the papers
presented at the conference. On one level this suggests that the term ‘sacred’ is
inherently vague.