Space Place And Religious Landscapes Living Mountains Darrelyn Gunzburg Bernadette Brady Editors by Darrelyn Gunzburg; Bernadette Brady (editors) 9781350079885, 9781350186422, 9781350079915, 135007988X, 1350186422, 135007991X instant download after payment.

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, Iberia, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, South 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 that fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, and recognises 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/human-shaping landscapes