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Sacred Sites: Destruction or counter-hegemonic resistance?

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2022
Even among international human rights circles there is a total neglect of a particular form of ongoing colonization of non-European societies, which is hardly noticed or even discussed: worldwide, the destruction of traditional religions, beliefs and ...
René Kuppe
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Constructing a Sacred Site Overseas: The Japanese Reinvention of the Rujing Stūpa in Hangzhou

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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Anthropogenic menace on sacred natural sites: the case of Me'ee Bokko and Daraartu sacred shrines in Guji Oromo, Southern Ethiopia

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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Sacred Natural Sites in the Arctic North: Living memory, traditions, cultural heritage and exploitation through tourism and inadequate protection

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2022
The subject matters of better preservation and thus, protection of sacred sites, is a topic that is brought into focus here because of growing concerns regarding mining, land development and expansion of the travel industry in northern Fennoscandia ...
Francis Joy
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? [PDF]

, 2018
Despite conservation discourses in Madagascar increasingly emphasizing the role of customary institutions for wildlife management, we know relatively little about their effectiveness. Here, we used semi-structured interviews (n = 54 adults in 8 villages)
Teixeira Rocha, JR
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Geography of Pilgrimage with Special Reference to Islam

Space and Culture, India, 2021
Pilgrimage is a spiritual journey during which pilgrims have a religious experience and feel connected to the faith's spiritual legacy. The sacred sites are the spiritual home for pilgrims which they have read and heard about but never visited or ...
Ravi S. Singh, Sarah Ahmad
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Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past [PDF]

, 2004
Our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights project (www.sacredsites.org.uk) examines physical, spiritual and interpretative engagements of today’s Pagans with sacred sites, theorises ‘sacredness’, and explores the implications of pagan engagements with ...
Blain, J., Wallis, R. J.
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Intangible Mosaic of Sacred Soundscapes in Medieval Serbia

Acoustics, 2022
Religious practice in Serbia has taken place using both indoors and outdoors sacred sites ever since the adoption of Christianity in medieval times. However, previous archaeoacoustic research was focused on historic church acoustics, excluding the open ...
Zorana Đorđević, Dragan Novković, Marija Dragišić   +2 more
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Tibetan Sacred Sites: Understanding the Traditional Management System and Its Role in Modern Conservation

Ecology and Society, 2012
Sacred sites are based on indigenous culture and traditional practices that value land and lives, and are considered to be of significant contribution in biodiversity conservation.
Xiaoli Shen, Zhi Lu, Shengzhi Li, Nyima Chen   +3 more
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Branding the Sacral Landscape: Religious Content in Regional Tourism Marketing, Set in a Post-secular Society

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2020
There is a paucity of research on the branding of sacral landscapes as a regional strategy in tourism marketing. On the one hand, the concept of place branding, to date, has been transferred very little to sacred destinations, while on the other hand ...
Markus Hilpert
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