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Heritage valuing and the challenge of remoteness: The case of the rock-hewn church of Nazugn Mariam, Meket District, Northern Ethiopia

Cogent Social Sciences
This study aims to explore the values and conservation threats of Nazugn Mariam monolithic rock-hewn church, a typical instance not only show the country’s long forgotten, ill-considered and endangered ancient rock-hewn churches in the rural areas but ...
Tsegaye Ebabey Demissie
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The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia)

Aethiopica, 2023
The monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham), situated on a peak of the eastern chains of the Gärʿalta mountains, is one of the well-known medieval Ethiopian monasteries.
Hagos Abrha Abay
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Tourism and Churches: Profiling, Behaviour and Motivations of "Church Chasers" in South Africa [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2022
Churches in South Africa have a rich history. Church tourism is perfectly positioned to attract tourists to South Africa and forms part of heritage tourism.
Eben Proos, Johan Hattingh
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A Rock-Hewn Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos? An Investigation into Possible ‘Northern’ Zagwe Churches near ʿAddigrat, Tǝgray

Aethiopica, 2021
Rulers of the short-lived Zagwe dynasty have long been lauded for their role as builderkings, producing several churches in the Lalibäla complex in Lasta in addition to the nearby church of Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos.
Mikael Muehlbauer
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Conservation Initiatives/Assessments in Rock-Carved Churches Specific to the Göreme Saklı Church

Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2023
Cappadocia contains historical, documentary, aesthetic, artistic, symbolic, social, economic, religious and spiritual values. Many structures and places produced by the rock carving technique have been destroyed and/or are on the way to extinction ...
Leyla Kaderli, Sümeyye Ertürk
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Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament1

Parliamentary History, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 309-347, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Underground movements are understandably reluctant to record the names and numbers of their adherents because any such compilation is manifestly a hostage to fortune. Hence very few lists of politically active Jacobites actually compiled by the Jacobites themselves have survived to the present day. In the French foreign ministry archives at La
Daniel Szechi, Christopher A. Whatley
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Infrastructure and American religion: Sites, methods, and theories for a changing field

Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023
Abstract This article reviews the literature on infrastructure in the study of American religions, examining its recent emergence as a topic of study and demonstrating its deeper role in the canons of the field. It argues that infrastructure has quickly become a multivalent conceptual term in the field, as well as a site for research. This latter point
Isaiah Ellis
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Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 20-32, April 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the ways in which stones have anchored stories and people in central Vanuatu. Three different sets of stones, and stories about those stones, cast light from different angles on the history of the distinctive chiefly title system of this region.
Chris Ballard
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Equity before ‘Equity’

The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 85-121, January 2023., 2023
The notion of ‘equity’ is undergoing conceptual repositioning in international law today, embracing individuals as well as states and gaining an association with human rights and the politics of protest. In the context of these developments, the present paper enquires into the premodern roots of this ancient and rich term through three historical ...
Stephen Humphreys
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Goodnight Colston. Mourning Slavery: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum‐Atlantic City

Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 1251-1276, July 2022., 2022
Abstract In the wake of the riotous procession that toppled the statue of Edward Colston, this essay sketches an ethnographic itinerary through the spectral geographies of Bristol, a circum‐Atlantic city haunted by the ghosts of slavery. The paper offers a Caribbean cosmological reading of the toppling and aqueous burial as a kind of duppy conquering ...
Adom Philogene Heron
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