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Sacred and Cultural Heritage of Sacred Cities
PLANARCH - Design and Planning ResearchSacred cities hold not only heritage value and sacred value but also cultural values that play an active role in shaping the life and space of these cities.
Nevin Gültekin, Ayşe Nur Canbolat
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Assessing relational values of nature through its cultural and spiritual significance is crucial for effective nature conservation. Folktales offer insights into traditional relationships between people and nature, and text mining is a powerful tool for extracting information from textual datasets.
Naoki Saito +2 more
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Sociološki PregledOne of the most important constituents of Serbian identity is the tradition about the Battle of Kosovo. Relying on Eliade's distinction between the sacred and the profane, the author claims that for the Serbian people Kosovo is a sacred space, St Vitus ...
Kinđić Zoran B.
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Mountain social–ecological systems encompass steep ecological gradients and diverse cultural practices, yet the relative roles of these factors in shaping mountain landscapes remain underexplored. In particular, the knowledge and practices of women in coproducing biocultural landscapes are often invisible in the academic literature. In the Ait
Meryem Aakairi +6 more
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Axis, 2012 Jeanne Halgren Kilde: Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 252 oldal.
András Kontsek
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Bebelos: spazio sacro, gradazioni di sacralità e gerarchie di partecipazione
Mythos, 2016 An analysis of contexts in which the word bebelos occurs is very useful in order to approach the way Greeks of archaic and classical ages used to consider the sacred as well as the relationship between men and gods. This idea is different from the modern
Lucia Marrucci
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Freemasonry’s Sacred Space in America
, 2018 American Freemasonry is as much a spatial as sacred practice. Emerging from arcane Enlightenment origins, Masonic theology and practice brim with a spatiality representative of Masonry’s compulsion to make men moral.
Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales +6 more
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Spirit of the land : politics, memory, and the sacred in South African land claims
, 1999 Bibliography: leaves 224-242.This thesis examines the role of sacred space in people's attachment to land, analysing the ways in which people create sacred space through labour, ritual, myth, and memory.
Stites, Elizabeth Howland
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios +7 more
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