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Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
Pilgrimage in Islam is a religious act wherein Muslims leave their homes and spaces and travel to another place, the nature, geography, and dispositions of which they are unfamiliar.
Nazar Ul Islam Wani
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual Reconstructions in Bernardino Amico’s Treatise on the Plans and Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land

open access: yesStudies in Digital Heritage, 2021
This essay explores the role of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in cultivating perceptions of the Catholic pilgrimage buildings as worthy of preservation, especially by employing techniques of representation in printed books that engaged with the
Kathryn Blair Moore
doaj  

Epistemic Rhetoric in Virtual Reality Interactive Factual Narratives

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
The turn to Interactive Digital Narratives to understand complexity offers a new model for creating, developing, and maintaining knowledge. At the same time, storytellers have turned their attention to Virtual Reality (VR). The confluence of these trends
Joshua A. Fisher
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Mosè Ricci. Habitat 5.0. L’Architettura del lungo presente

open access: yesTechne, 2021
«For more than fifty years, fashion, music and architecture have always seemed to express the same aspirations, the same expectations. Is it possible that they have remained so indifferent to the great environmental, economic and social changes of the ...
Alberto De Capua
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An Intelligent Computational Real-time Virtual Environment Model for Efficient Crowd Management

open access: yesInternational Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2012
During the annual Islamic pilgrimage (Hajj), the movement of vehicles and pedestrians from Arafat to Muzdalifah during the Nafrah of pilgrims is known to suffer from severe bottlenecks that often result in arrival of thousands of pilgrims to Muzdalifah ...
Rabee Reffat
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Virtual Pilgrimage, Real Pain

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract“What’s next?” asked my friends and family after I returned. Their faces once showed confusion when I first told them about the iguanas and all of that, but now, they couldn’t wait to hear what even crazier new adventure I had in store.
openaire   +1 more source

Beyond Reality Avoidance: Unraveling the Paradox of Escapism Through Self‐Monitoring and Autonomy Mechanisms for Consumers' Life Satisfaction

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the Paradox of Escapism, exploring how the act of escaping reality can evolve from a short‐term avoidance strategy to a mechanism for self‐regulation and enhanced life satisfaction. Employing five rigorous, multimethod investigations, including qualitative interviews and sentiment analysis (Study 1), Structural Equation ...
Thamiris Magalhães de Sousa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Proposal for the virtual and material reconstruction through anastylosis of the archaeological remains of the Patio of the Renaissance Palace of the Ambassador Vich in Valencia, Spain

open access: yesVirtual Archaeology Review, 2013
Ambassador Vich’s palace in Valencia (1526-1858) was one of the first examples of renaissance architecture in Spain. After its demolition, part of the courtyard’s marbles was conserved, gathered, after a century and a half of pilgrimage in a unifying ...
Mercedes Galiana Agulló   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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