Mount Hermon (Jabal El Sheikh) in Lebanon, A Sacred Biblical Mountain: Pilgrimages, traditions and rituals

Mount Hermon, also known as Jabal El Haramoun or Jabal El Sheikh, is the highest peak in the Anti-Lebanon eastern mountain chain, located between Lebanon, Syria, and the Israeli-Palestinian territories. Since antiquity, this mountain has been considered holy, a fact to which many archaeological rema...

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Subtitles:"Sacred Journeys 7: Pilgrimage and Beyond: Going Places, Far and Away"
Main Author: Farra Haddad, Nour (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology 2021
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 19-27
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hermongebirge / Holy mountain / Interreligiosity / Ritual / Pilgrimage / Regional identity / Cultural identity
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
CB Christian life; spirituality
CE Christian art
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Lebanon
B Maronite
B Mount Harmon
B Holy Land
B Pilgrimage
B Orthodox
B Christian
B Elijah
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