Definition of "sacralization" []

• To dedicate and sanctify a structure such as a church or religious school for a sacred purpose. (noun)
• A developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra. (noun)

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• "Among his many salient points: "however tempting it is to depict (that is, to transcode) the religiosity of resistance, insurgence, and attack as the sacralization of proper (economic) politics, that depiction cannot escape from becoming a parochial account that depends on an a priori distinction between religion and politics and on the separation of church and state" (747)."
• "Feminists have also created new rituals to mark the birth of boys, in addition to circumcision, in which the male organ is not the center of attention or sacralization."
• "There is no analogous sacralization of the female body in traditional Judaism."