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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 Most sacred natural sites around the world have traditionally been the territory of men, with minimal or no participation by women. As a result, little scholarship has examined the role of women in sacred natural sites and their contribution to ...
Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
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Constructing a Sacred Site Overseas: The Japanese Reinvention of the Rujing Stūpa in Hangzhou [PDF]
Religions, 2023 A sacred site that draws pilgrims from distant regions is a distinctive resource for studying religion. Research into a site’s relevance to pilgrims and how it came to be founded contributes to a better understanding of religious activity.
Xinrui Zeng
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Land, 2022 This study provides an overview of how sacred natural sites are given recognition within the World Heritage system. It offers an analysis of the extent to which sacred natural sites that are part of nine World Heritage sites are recognised in site ...
Bas Verschuuren +2 more
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Sacred Sites in the Arctic North and Beyond: The Challenges of Protecting Cultural Heritage and Living Traditions in a Multitude of Contexts and Cultures [PDF]
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2022 The foundation for what is to be presented below has much value as a discourse in today’s academia because of the ways in which the research and study of sacred sites are effected and encountered within a multitude of contexts, including religious ...
Francis Joy
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Strategic Intelligence for Sacred Sites
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2023 The polysemous aspect of pilgrimage constitutes a very old human activity, sometimes religious and alternatively secular, make it a complex matter to approach and handle. The exact number of pilgrims visiting sacred sites remains undetermined, and ranges,
Pierre Fournie
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Heliyon, 2021 This article explores the anthropogenic menaces affecting Me'ee Bokko and Daraartu sacred shrines among Guji Oromo, in Adoolaa Reeddee and Annaa Sorraa districts, Southern Ethiopia.
Gemeda Odo Roba
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How Visible Are Sacred Sites Online? : Availability of European sacred site websites
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2017 Sacred sites are places where the spiritual world meets the real world. Every culture in the world seeks to acclaim the mysterious, the divine, the martyred or the extraordinary.
Onur Akbulut, Yakin Ekin
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Spiritual commons: sacred sites as core of community-conserved areas in Kyrgyzstan
International Journal of the Commons, 2017 We analyze sacred sites in Ysyk-Köl Biosphere Reserve, Kyrgyzstan, from the commons perspective. There are some 130 sacred sites in the region, and these fit into the subcategory of cultural/spiritual commons within the broader category of new commons ...
Aibek Samakov, Fikret Berkes
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Epiphytic lichens of the sacred natural site “Bosco di Sant’Antonio” (Majella National Park – Abruzzo) [PDF]
Italian Botanist, 2019 Sacred Natural Sites are relevant for biodiversity conservation, as in the case of forest sites that, across centuries, developed old growth structures and are now crucial for the conservation of epiphytic lichens and other specialized forest organisms ...
Juri Nascimbene +8 more
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Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2022 Sacred sites in the Arctic are under threat from a number of external factors. In addition to land uses such as mining, climate change poses a major threat.
Stefan Kirchner
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