God or Nature: Desire and the Quest for Unity
Vitek, Bill2011
The article seeks to restore the union between God and nature in an increasingly divided world. Divisions going…
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The article seeks to restore the union between God and nature in an increasingly divided world. Divisions going…
The introduction sets out the importance of protecting cultural and spiritual values in sacred natural sites. Within the…
This paper presents a scholarly exposition of the Desert Fathers’ view of nature and the relationship they established…
The goal of this paper is to identify points of convergence between the great religious traditions in addressing…
The Islamic interaction with nature has been clearly constrained and directed by foundational ethical precepts such as mercy,…
Based on diverse experiences of the sacred dimension in wildernesses, this short but rich essay begins by discussing…
This is the first handbook published in Europe to consider the question of intangible heritage in protected areas….
Using a series of analogies between a number of basic geometric shapes that appear in nature and art…
Holy Island, near the island of Arran (SW Scotland, UK) was regarded as a holy site during medieval…
This draft has been produced in the framework of the Culture Working Group of the Ramsar Convention on…