Mountains as sacred spaces
Sacred mountains are well known from all over the world, especially as places for pilgrimage. Classical phenomenology of religion used to present them as places of a hierophany and/or as spaces for a numinous experience. Although both these concepts – ’hierophany’ and ’numinous experience’ – have be...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis Group
2020
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Culture and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 18-30 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Holy mountain
/ Pilgrimage
/ Religious experience
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RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
Further subjects: | B
Numinous
B sacred mountains B Pilgrimage B Hierophany B extreme sports |
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Summary: | Sacred mountains are well known from all over the world, especially as places for pilgrimage. Classical phenomenology of religion used to present them as places of a hierophany and/or as spaces for a numinous experience. Although both these concepts – ’hierophany’ and ’numinous experience’ – have been the target of severe criticism in Religious Studies, it may be rewarding to redefine them as purely descriptive categories and discuss the applicability to various kinds of mountain-experiences: from religious pilgrimage in Late Antiquity as, for instance, climbing Mount Sinai, to extreme-sports in modern times as, for instance, free-soloing in the Yosemite National Park. |
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ISSN: | 1475-5629 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2020.1858545 |