Killing dragons: religionisations in the Alps

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION
David Atwood
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ABSTRACT This article shows how the discursive use of religionisations – the interpretation and positioning of an object in a religious semantic – becomes a central strategy in the evaluation of mountaineering and climbing. Starting with the French Revolution and the consequences of its appropriations of nature, the article shows how evaluations of mountaineering endeavours use religionisations (a sacralising of different aspects of mountain culture) as a legitimising strategy. Contrasting with these affirmative religionisations, the article moves on to more critical evaluations of these religionisations, such as it is used in the debate about the ‘right’ way of approaching mountains, for instance in debates about ‘wilderness.’ In such debates, ‘Religion’ is used to distinguish between the usual and the unusual, the constitutive outside of the spaces and value systems we normally inhabit. Applying the Foucauldian notion of ‘apparatus’ to the data of Alpinist discourse, ‘Religion’ becomes a ‘boundary-object’ in a system of reference allowing for the evaluation of identities.
屠龙记:阿尔卑斯山的宗教信仰
本文展示了宗教化的话语使用——在宗教语义中对物体的解释和定位——如何成为登山和攀登评价的中心策略。这篇文章从法国大革命及其侵占自然的后果开始,展示了对登山活动的评估如何使用宗教化(将山地文化的不同方面神圣化)作为一种合法化策略。与这些肯定的宗教化形成对比,文章继续对这些宗教化进行更批判性的评估,例如在关于接近山脉的“正确”方式的辩论中使用它,例如在关于“荒野”的辩论中。在这样的辩论中,“宗教”一词被用来区分寻常与不寻常,即我们通常居住的空间和价值体系之外的构成部分。将福柯式的“机器”概念应用于阿尔卑斯主义话语的数据,“宗教”成为一个允许身份评估的参考系统中的“边界对象”。
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