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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Auteur principal: Berner, Ulrich 1948- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Taylor and Francis Group 2020
Dans: Culture and religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 21, Numéro: 1, Pages: 18-30
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Montagne sacrée / Pèlerinage / Expérience religieuse
RelBib Classification:AF Géographie religieuse
AG Vie religieuse
AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux
Sujets non-standardisés:B Numinous
B sacred mountains
B Pilgrimage
B Hierophany
B extreme sports
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1475-5629
Contient:Enthalten in: Culture and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2020.1858545