Sacred Trees, Mystic Caves, Holy Wells: Devotional Titles in Spanish Rural Sanctuaries

Tatay, Jaime

doi:10.3390/rel12030183

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“…and visible pre-Islamic and non-Islamic rites as appeal to ancestors/aruakhs, who guard this sacred place, 'nodular magic ', animism (worship of water, soil, wind, sun)." Just like in Spain, where Tatay (2021) has argued that many rural, mostly Marian sanctuaries with nature-related names are ancient, pre-Christian SNS.…”

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What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens

Tatay¹,

Merino²

2023

E&S

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Sacred natural sites (SNS) are valuable biocultural hotspots and important areas for nature conservation. They are attracting a growing attention in academic, management, and political fora. The relevance and implications of the sacred nature of these sites for the multiple actors involved in their management is widely acknowledged. However, the complexities and ambiguities surrounding the notion of "the sacred" have not been researched in depth. Because few previous scholarly works have specifically examined a topic that has profound implications for conservation as well as for the communities inhabiting these sites, we aim to fill in the gap by unraveling the conceptualizations and assumptions of "the sacred" in academic, peer reviewed SNS publications. Through a systematic review of the literature performed from a conservation lens, our findings unveil that: (1) Conservationists and protected areas managers have paid much more attention to SNS than social scientists and religious studies scholars; (2) The sacredness motif tends to be predominantly associated with taboos, bans, and regulations of community-managed resources; (3) The sacred is a highly complex concept often used in a binary, dichotomous way, as opposed to the profane and wild related; (4) An instrumental view of the sacred can limit the potential to include other intangible values in management and exclude relevant stakeholders; and (5) The insights from cultural anthropology, political ecology, and religious studies unveil the power dynamics and hidden assumptions that often go unnoticed in the literature. These perspectives should be included in the management of SNS and in policymaking.

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What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens

Tatay¹,

Merino²

2023

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“…This category includes a wide range of landscapes and biotopes, including sacred forests, sacred swamps, cemeteries, sacred natural sites, and urban sacred sites. Papers focusing on religious places studied different aspects of the relationship between biodiversity (mainly plant species) and sacred sites, for example, studies of lichens in Indian sacred groves (Sen, 2014), tree diversity (Onyekwelu, Olusola, 2014), sacred trees (Tatay, 2021), and medicinal plants (Doffana, Yildiz, 2017). There were only occasional studies of animal species, such as large and mediumsized mammals in sacred natural sites (Xu et al, 2020) or honey bee conservation in sacred groves (Mondal, 2020).…”

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Human–Nature Relationships in Defining Biocultural Landscapes: A Systematic Review

Baránková

Špulerová

2023

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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The growing interest of researchers in the topic of biocultural diversity has resulted in the research field expanding from its initial focus on places inhabited by indigenous communities to rural and then to urban landscapes. The aims of this study are to summarize and review the current state of knowledge on biocultural landscape (BCL), present a spectrum of human activities leading to their formation, and based on that, focus on typology of these landscapes. Moreover, the connections between cultural ecosystem services (CES) and BCLs were examined, and the research on these unique landscapes in individual countries and the proportion of studied landscape types were graphically displayed. BCLs are threatened all over the world; therefore, there is a need to identify and recognize them, and provide them with effective legislative protection.

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The Sacred in Nature Conservation: A European Perspective

Tatay

2023

Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology

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Sacred Trees, Mystic Caves, Holy Wells: Devotional Titles in Spanish Rural Sanctuaries

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens

What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens

Human–Nature Relationships in Defining Biocultural Landscapes: A Systematic Review

The Sacred in Nature Conservation: A European Perspective

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