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Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2018 A space can be sacred, providing those who inhabit a particular space with sense of transcendence—being connected to something greater than oneself. The sacredness may be inherent in the space, as for a religious institution or a serene place outdoors. Alternatively, a space may be made sacred by the people within it and events that occur there.
Pamela Adelstein
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Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids Biosynthesis in Sacred Lotus
Molecules, 2018 Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) is an ancient aquatic plant used throughout Asia for its nutritional and medicinal properties. Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs), mostly within the aporphine and bisbenzylisoquinoline structural categories, are ...
Ivette M Menéndez-Perdomo +1 more
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International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2023 While religious sites are identified as unique experience spaces, offering diverse experiences, discourse on what constitutes a visitor’s experience still seems unsettled, primarily due to the fragmented approach owing to the classic binary of pilgrim ...
Priyanka Singh +3 more
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Sacred forest biodiversity conservation: A meta‐analysis
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Sacred forests offer co‐benefits of protecting both cultural traditions and forested areas. However, sacred forests' contribution to biodiversity conservation is often undervalued.
M. Sullivan +5 more
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Religions, 2023 A deeper understanding of sport cannot remain only in rational discourse that transforms reality into quantified data but must descend into philosophical areas that also accept the multiple figurativeness of symbols.
Ivo Jirásek
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The experience of the sacred through places of ritual in architecture
Anuari d’Arquitectura i Societat, 2021 The social and spatial structures, the code as well as the languages recognized and created by the masters of the past are no longer adequate in our present time. Belonging to these structures today is no longer associated with the community but with the
Salvatore Rugino
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Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2022 Sacred forests are patches of remnant natural forests, protected through social laws by the local communities near their villages and are always dedicated to cultural purposes.
Y. Maru, A. Gebrekirstos, Getahun Haile
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Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space
Religion, State and Society, 2022 Contemporary conflicts about secularity in ‘the West’ tend to focus on public space. Although collective Christian heritage means that public space is rarely exclusively neutral, conflicts continue to arise over the relationship between secularity and ...
Mariëtta Van der Tol, P. Gorski
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“Es música el silencio”. Suspensión de la palabra y poética de lo sagrado en Octavio Paz
Valenciana, 2021 Muchas veces, en Paz, el proceso poético mismo y la experiencia de plenitud a la que lleva se dejan describir en términos cuasi religiosos, como un camino de iniciación que desemboca en una especie de éxtasis.
Paul-Henri Giraud
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On the benefits of mythologies for sociological imagination
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article is a sociological review-reflection on the non-sociological book by P.A. Sapronov Mythology of Secular Culture (Saint Petersburg: Publishing House “Petropolis”, 2023.
I. V. Trotsuk, M. V. Tsimbal
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