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Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 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 also its underdeveloped heritage management system.
Tsegaye Ebabey Demissie
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The Efficacy of Heritage Interpretation at the Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches in Ethiopia: exploring the need for integrating ICT-mediation [PDF]
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2016 The inscription of a property in the World Heritage List serves as a recognition of its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). Such recognition gives visitors the expectation that visiting the site would be a unique experience that would fulfil their visitation goals.
Ndivo, Rayviscic Mutinda +1 more
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Virtual Archaeology Review, 2016 Digital photography is a valuable documentation technique for the preservation of a cultural heritage site because highresolution photography presents both general and detailed views of mural paintings and mural condition in a single image.
Ryo Higuchi +4 more
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Religious Tourism Attractions at Debre Aron Rock-Hewn Church, Meket District, Northern Ethiopia [PDF]
International Journal of Religious Tourism and PilgrimageEthiopia, which has a diverse sacred cultural heritage, has enormous fortunes as far as religious tourism is concerned. Its ancient Christianity has left numerous religious and historical legacies, ranging from architecturally sophisticated sacred monuments to living religious practices.
Tsegaye 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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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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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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