Geography And Religion: The Biblical Seven Mountains Of Culture

Geography does not only implicate the effect of the environment on abiotic and biotic life on Earth. It is not only seen as a boundary that physically and politically partitions two or more regions of the world, but holds within a much deeper significance for it shapes the everyday life of different ethnic and cultural groups around the world.
Geography and Religion: The Biblical Seven Mountains of Culture
Geography is seen everywhere from the divine mountains of the Himalayas, to the majestic mountain presented on the cover of every Paramount film, to the great rivers flowing and separating different physical terrains. Geography serves as median for cultural relations and variability that occur within a region(s) and within a group(s).

We must abolish everything perverse and crude. We must move the “mountain” to reach inner peace and find the divine revelation. Moving mountains alludes to the challenge in changing all the aspects of a culture: the religion, business, media, family, education, entertainment, and government. Mountains are physical barriers that inhibit change and are immovable, large, creation of a diverse, and heterogeneous society. In the words of Tom Brown, “Mountains affect the culture in which people reside. If the mountains are ungodly, then the culture will be ungodly, and it will be more difficult to reach those people for Christ. So to reach them, we must also be engaged in moving the

Similar to the Pashtun group of Afghanistan, a geographical and political boundary, mountains in this case, divides the Sherpa group of the Khumbu valley, which lies in between the Tibet region and the northern skirts of Nepal. The Sherpa, highly influenced by the people and practices of Tibet, is losing its own cultural essence and progression. Instead, the Sherpa are assimilating the ideas of those living in the Tibetan region, like the integration of Tibetan influenced Buddhism (Sabelli, 2014). Additionally, due to their geographic stature, many of the Sherpa people are viewed as low class nomads and mountain people, who lack education and cultural progressiveness. The threats and stereotypes against the Sherpa highly resemble those of the people in Appalachia: the “do-nothing, uneducated, filthy, disease prone, falling behind time, and inhibiting cultural and political establishments and progression” mountain