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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"sacred landscape"”.
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Cosmology and Personal Experience: Representations of the Sacred Landscape in Salasaca, Ecuador
… understand the transformative powers of the landscape and the significance of that power at the level of individual belief. I conclude with an argument that we must continue to explore how individuals mediate, reproduce, and change cultural patterns. Cultural patterns influence not only what …
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Religion, Folk Belief and the Sacred Landscape in Women’s Writing in Wales, 1847 – 1909
… of religion, folklore and superstition, and the sacred landscape, in twelve novels by six Anglophone women writers in Wales: Anne Beale’s <i>Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry</i> (1849), Eleanor Griffiths’ <i>World Worship</i> (1853), L.M. (Louisa Matilda) Spooner’s <i>Country …
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Building Across the Sacred Landscape: The Romanesque Churches of Verona in their Urban Context
This project explores the intersection of art, religion, and community within the historical context of the Middle Ages, where architecture acts as an expression of the experience of urban life, as well as an affecting locus of social interaction. It focuses on medieval Verona, where the immense …
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Separated from Saints and Sacred Spaces: Religion, Identity and Belonging for Peruvian Andean Migrants in the US
… Andean religious practices are based in the sacred landscape and local saint fiestas. When Peruvian Andeans migrate away from their communities in the Andes, their religious practices are altered because they are based in the sacred landscape and local saint fiestas. The deterritorialization …
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The benefits of viewing sacred versus preferred landscapes
Restoration landscape theories propound the observation that landscape mitigates human emotion, mental functioning, and behaviour. Those environments that positively affect these spheres are called "restorative". In recent years, many attempts have been made to quantify restorative landscapes, so …
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Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas And Cultural Memory In Republican Italy
… of colonial processes and changing religious landscapes in Republican central Italy. New towns used temple decoration to make particular claims about their identity, longevity, and role within the region. This information rarely survives in textual sources of this period, but can be traced …
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Three paths to Zion
… multi-religious harmony in the contested sacred topography of Jerusalem. First, I observed the environmental and social qualities of religious coexistence by studying a pilgrimage site in Jerusalem currently shared by groups from the three monotheistic faiths, the Masjid al-Nabi Da'ud (the …
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The Embers of Allah: cosmologies, knowledge, and relations in the mountains of central Bosnia
… of the house, the land and the persons with the sacred landscape and divinity. Throughout the thesis I argue that our research in the post-Yugoslav regions needs to take into account local knowledge traditions as a serious matter of concern, and situate the war atrocities or postsocialist …
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A Social Life of Water: Water, Ownership and Society in a Himalayan Village
… been called the ‘Kailash Mandala’, the Tibetan sacred landscape centred on that mountain; as a result, it sits at the overlap of Tibetan, Nepalese and global social spheres. A study of Tangshet therefore offers insights not only into the social life of Tangshet itself, but also into the social …
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Walking the faithscapes of Varanasi, India: Pilgrimage of the Panchkroshi Yatra
Sacred landscapes in India play a pivotal role in the celebration of religious traditions and the mythological stories associated with them. A pilgrimage is an act of journeying to the sacred landscapes primarily for religious reasons and spiritual benefits but is not limited to them. Pilgrimages …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… The common denominator of stewardship gardens, sacredness in the landscape, is explored through an understanding of its components - Centeredness, Natural Boundary, Connectedness, and Particularness - as suggested by Landscape Architect, Randolph Hester. The aspect of particularness is expanded …