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When Is A Journey Sacred? Exploring Twelve Properties of the Sacred

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
One of the first definitive works on the concept of the sacred was Emile Durkheim’s 1912 work The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. In it, he defined the sacred in opposition to the profane.
Jasmine Goodnow, Kelly Bloom
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A solar hierophany at the Iberian sanctuary of Castellar (Jaén)

Archivo Español de Arqueología, 2014
Herein we report the discovery of a possible solar hierophany at the Cueva de la Lobera, in the Iberian sanctuary of Castellar (Jaén). The phenomenon consists of the brief illumination of the innermost area of the cave at the sunset around the equinoxes. Sunlight enters through an opening located on the western end of the cave.
Esteban, César, Rísquez, Carmen, Rueda, Carmen   +2 more
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El paisaje de los dioses: los santuarios griegos de la época clásica y su entorno natural The gods' landscape: Greek sanctuaries of classic age and their natural environment

Aisthesis, 2011
El presente artículo busca profundizar y poner en evidencia la relación que se establece y determina en el emplazamiento de un santuario griego en un particular entorno natural, para lo cual se centra en tres puntos principales: el genius loci, el ...
Ronald Harris Diez
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Rituals, ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2007
Dafni A.
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The Specificity of Hierophany as the Top of the Semiotic Hierarchy of Neo-Protestantism

Ideas and Ideals
The article attempts to determine the specifics of the semiotic hierarchy of neo-Protestantism and to identify its structure. The object of the research is the dogmatic and praxeological complexes of neo-Protestantism, and the subject is the structure of their semiotic hierarchy. Semiotic methodology is used as a basic methodology in the study.
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The Evolution of Symbolic Thought: At the Intersection of Schizophrenia Psychopathology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Neuroscience. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry
Tonna M.
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The tree as a hierophany and the basis of sexuality in indigenous myths

, 2019
Algunos árboles son manifestaciones hierofánicas. En este estudio de mitología indoamericana se analizarán, principalmente, mitos etiológicos, relacionados con el árbol, lo cual develará la base de sexualidad entre lo sagrado y lo profano, y donde el sacrificio tiene un aspecto primordial.A través de los diversos motivos míticos se exhibirá que los ...
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Banten as Hierophany: A Phenomenological Study of Sacrality at Pura Wira Satya Dharma Temple

Jurnal Studi Agama
This study aims to explore the meaning of banten (offerings) and sacred trays as forms of hierophany, namely the manifestation of the sacred in tangible reality, as well as to examine how Hindus at Wira Satya Dharma Temple interpret these practices within the context of modern life.
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Manna, charisma and hierophany: understandings of the sacred for the Geography of Religion

, 2019
L’espace n’existe pas a priori. Son appréhension a lieu en fonction des spatialités géographiques. Mais comment construisons-nous les conceptions de l’espace? Pourquoi le classons-nous en catégories de sacralités et de profanités? Les concepts de manne, de charisme et de hiérarchie, faisant référence à la manifestation du sacré, nous orientent vers la ...
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Hierophany in Ancient China and the Sacred Sites

THE JOURNAL OF KOREAN PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY, 2011
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