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Moral Drift and Sacred Reconfigurations: Rethinking Values and Religious Practices in Digitally Mediated Worlds

Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
This study examines how digitalization—particularly through immersive environments such as the metaverse—transforms moral values and religious practices.
Kübra Cevherli
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‘The place where you should have been born’—Conservation practitioners sacralising wilderness and developing a sense of belonging in the Manu National Park, Perú

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1413-1424, June 2025.
Abstract The management of protected areas is often portrayed as an enterprise guided by objective knowledge and technical criteria, a claim that situates conservation practitioners in positions of power relative to other actors in these spaces. Challenging these claims of objectivity by exploring conservation practitioners' subjective views is vital ...
Eduardo Salazar Moreira
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Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: A Framework‐Based Systematic Review

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
The metaverse is projected to contribute over $3 trillion to the global economy by 2031. Major technology firms, including Unity Technologies, Meta, Epic Games, Valve Corporation, Alphabet, and Roblox, invest billions of dollars in its development. Adopting digital technologies such as mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (ER ...
Chiranjeeb Debnath, Arpita Srivastava, Tze Wei Liew   +2 more
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Virtual Reality’s Impact on Tourist Attitudes in Islamic Religious Tourism: Exploring Emotional Attachment and VR Presence

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
This study explores the integration of immersive technologies, specifically virtual reality (VR), to enhance tourist experiences in the rapidly expanding religious tourism sector. Despite VR’s potential, limited research has examined its impact on religious tourism.
Eman Alkhalifah, Ramy Hammady, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Alyaa Darwish, Ella Cranmer, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Aikaterini Bourazeri, Timothy Jung, David C. Mohr   +8 more
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Pilgrimage Studies in Oceania : Betwixt and between National Concerns, Academic Trends and Local Ontologies

, 2020
Pilgrimage studies as a distinct field of interest started to emerge only recently in Oceania, which encompasses Australia, and the islands and nations of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
Hermkens, Anna-Karina
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Monastic Counter-Culture and Its Medieval Origins

Religions
Monastic life presents a contrast to many aspects of modern existence (the rule of ideology, consumerism, various forms of negativity, dominance of the virtual, forgetfulness).
Michael Edward Moore
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Virtual Travel, Imaginary Homelands, Pop Cosmopolitans, and Ethnic Enclaves

Emerging Media
Drawing examples from field work conducted with various fandoms in Shanghai, this article explores the ways that the spatial and performance practices enable the active production of belief or “make believe” within the participating fans.
Henry Jenkins
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Teknologi Realitas Virtual pada Perangkat Bergerak untuk Media Pengenalan Lingkungan Haji

Jurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer
Kurangnya pengetahuan tata letak objek di lokasi haji dan pedoman haji mengharuskan calon jamaah haji untuk lebih giat dalam belajar dan berlatih manasik haji.
Usaid Syawahidul Chaq, Febriliyan Samopa
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Internet generation in religious cyberspace: worldview challenges of the digital age

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities in the perception of reli-gious cyberspace by the Ukrainian Internet generation. The relevance and novelty of the research consists in determining the specifics of the religious cyberspace func-
Ірина Ломачинська, Юлія Гришина   +1 more
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Wounds Sustained, Wounds Nurtured: Rituals of Violence at Wagah [PDF]

Cultural Intertexts, 2016
The Radcliffe Line at Wagah is now a world famous tourist spot where each evening thousands of tourists gather to witness the ritual of lowering the flags of India and Pakistan. Visiting the place is kind of pilgrimage for the Indians, (and must be for
Monirul ISLAM
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