Call of the mountain: modern enchantment on and off the screen

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mountaineers faced mortal danger in vertical mountain walls, and imagined mountains as sentient, terrifyingly attractive foes. This agency formed the basis of mountain religion, in which enchanting mountains recalled notions of the sacred or holy, and mount...

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Main Author: Echtler, Magnus 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor and Francis Group 2020
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-71
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Film / Mountaineering (Motif) / Experience of religion / Holy mountain / History 1926-2018
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B cinema studies
B Numinous
B Liminality
B Agency
B Film
B Holy
B Death
B Mountaineering
B Sacred
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