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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan +4 more
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Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
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Inculturation and ancestor veneration: The case of the Dagaaba Catholics. [PDF]
, 1995 The tension between indigenous African cultures and religions on the one hand, and Christian Churches on the other, is a well known fact that has been addressed by all concerned but still not resolved.
Dapila, Fabian Naangmensuma.
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Longing for nature: Becoming more connected to nature through nostalgia
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Repairing the human–nature relationship is one of the century's defining tasks. In this paper, we were interested in whether nature‐based nostalgia was a significant and unique predictor of higher nature connectedness as a key operationalisation of the human–nature relationship.
Michael L. Lengieza, Rosemary Aviste
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A Religious Festival Ritual: The Tradition of Zirat/Ziret in Kastamonu
Uluslararası Halkbilimi Araştırmaları DergisiThis study aims to examine the zirat/ziret tradition practiced in Kastamonu during religious festivals, especially on the eve of the feast days, within the framework of ritual theory, the cult of the dead, and ancestor cult.
Semra ALTIKULAÇ
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Mary, the communion of saints and the Chinese veneration of ancestors
, 2010 This dissertation of 408 pages includes illustrated photos and Chinese texts as appendices, and attempts to understand Mary\u27s role in two ancient traditions and practices: Chinese ancestor veneration, a cultural practice; and the communion of saints ...
Chua, Celia
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
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Pray to the ancestors: a case study of Christianity and Nias indigenous religion
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis research examines syncretism in the religious practices of Christian communities on Nias Island, focusing on the persistence of ancestor worship among some rural residents.
Sonny Eli Zaluchu
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