Space, place and religious landscapes : living mountains /
"Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London [England] :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in material religion.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia and the Andes, and embrace the union of sky, landscape and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point the fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, recognising that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. The book fuses ideas of space, place and material religion with cultural environmentalism and takes an interconnected approach to material religio-landscapes. In this way it fills the gap between lived religious traditions, personal reflection, phenomenology, historical context, environmental philosophy, myths and performativity. In defining material religion as active engagement with mountain-forming and humanshaping landscapes, the research and ideas presented here provide theories that are widely applicable to other forms of material religion."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781350079915 135007991X 1350079898 9781350079892 9781350079908 1350079901 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350079915 |