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Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites and Spiritual Governance: the legal case for Juristic Personhood
Conservation & Society, 2019 Bas Verschuuren
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Pärimus maastikul, maastik pärimuses: Hargla kihelkonna näitel [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2013 The article provides an overview of the dynamics of local lore in Hargla parish, its importance and meaning, as well as the influencing factors in the cultural space of a parish nowadays. The article is based on the fieldwork carried out in Hargla parish
Marju Kõivupuu
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Density, Spatial Pattern and Relief Features of Sacred Sites in Northern Morocco
Landscape Online, 2013 Sacred sites are of conservation value because of their spiritual meaning, as cultural heritage and as remnants of near-natural biotopes in landscapes strongly transformed by man.
Holger Jäckle +2 more
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Sites of Re-Enchantment: Sacred Space and Nature in Early 20th Century Europe
Religions, 2022 This essay analyses the relationship between healing, nature, and the sacred in the construction of “sacred space” or heterotopies at the beginning of the 20th century in Europe.
Aaron French
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“Our Sacred Native Land”: Armenian Roots Tourism in Eastern Turkey
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2021 This article explores how Armenian roots tourists carve a “sacred native land” out of eastern Turkey through their journeys. It addresses the question of how they imagine and inhabit different understandings of homeland, sacredness, and nativeness while ...
Ayşenur Korkmaz
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2017 Sacred and natural sites have a social, cultural and spiritual importance for the Jola people in Lower Casamance. Moreover, they have a vital role for the preservation of natural resources and the biodiversity in general and then, undoubtedly present an ...
Claudette Soumbane Diatta +3 more
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Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2020 Official nature conservation efforts have lasted a little more than a century in the world. However, the history of protection of Sacred Natural Sites (SNSs) by local cultural groups goes back thousands of years because these places have sacred value and
Bandırma Onyedi
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Sacred Trees, Mystic Caves, Holy Wells: Devotional Titles in Spanish Rural Sanctuaries
Religions, 2021 This paper explores how local, lived religion has creatively linked spiritual insights and popular devotions in ecologically valuable settings helping generate and preserve the rich Spanish biocultural heritage.
Jaime Tatay
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Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 2020 Background: Sacred groves are model systems that have the potential to contribute to rural healthcare owing to their medicinal floral diversity and strong social acceptance.
R. Ray, A. Ray
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