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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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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Taylor and Francis Group
2020
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Culture and religion
Year: 2020, 卷: 21, 發布: 1, Pages: 18-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
聖山
/ 朝聖
/ 宗教經驗
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| IxTheo 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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| 總結: | 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 |