scholarly journals Sacred Sites and State Failures: A Case Study of the Babri Masjid/Ram Temple Dispute in Ayodhya

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W Edge ◽  
Mc Rajan
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Sites

scholarly journals Enhanced Shared Governance Improves the Collaborative Management of Protected Areas in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Geoffreys Matipano ◽  
Reinford Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Collaborative Management ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Critical Success

A majority of protected areas are not being managed effectively enough to ensure the perpetuity of biological resources they contain due to impediments such as poor governance. This study focused on the experiences in the shared governance of people involved in partnership-managed protected areas and also on developing critical success factors in implementing such partnerships. The interpretivism approach was appropriate for this qualitative, inductive, descriptive, and exploratory three-case study that used in-depth interviews and open-ended quester-views with a purposive sample to generate data. In the early stages of the projects, the protected area shared governance was not stable and was characterized by many pitfalls because the concept of partnerships was new in Zimbabwe. It is important to develop guiding frameworks and build capacity that eliminates governance vacuum, ambiguity, deficiencies, overcrowding, redundancies, bureaucracy, and politics from the early stages of the partnerships. Community participation is crucial in the management and long-term sustainability of protected areas in developing countries. Further, governance reforms for the protected areas needed to recognize traditional and cultural sites in the project areas and develop governance types of the sacred sites formally attributed to the local ethnic indigenous people nested within project shared governance. Some critical success factors of well-shared governance of protected areas are in the text. However, all the principles of good governance may not be usable in one case study

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif (Jerusalem)

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-156
Author(s):  
Yuval Jobani ◽  
Nahshon Perez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Status ◽  
Model Section ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

Chapter 5 explores two contested sacred sites—the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Haram esh-Sharif/Temple Mount—and two models of governance of contested sacred sites—status quo and closure. Section A describes the status quo at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to facilitate, in section B, a critical discussion of the structure, justifications, advantages, and disadvantages of the status quo model. Section C describes the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif case study with an emphasis on the period of 1967 to the present. Section D defines, explores, and criticizes closure as a model of governance for contested sacred sites.

The conservation of sacred sites: Sarnath, a case study

1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Sites

Sacred Journeys

Journeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Shadia Taha
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Host State ◽  
Complex Subject

Pilgrimage has been performed by members of all religions, and all beliefs, from prehistoric times to the present. The visitation of religious and sacred sites represents a significant economic resource for many faith establishments and organizations. In this article, I will explore the Muslim Hajj to Mecca as a case study. The study is based on ethnographic research using interviews and observation. The economic impact of pilgrims is a multifaceted and complex subject. Pilgrims spend money on transport, accommodation, and other services; hence, they contribute to the economy of the host state. My research suggests that there is a particular type of relationship between the economic and the spiritual aspects of pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Spirituality and Tourism in Japanese Pilgrimage Sites

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumi Kato ◽  
Ricardo Progano
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
The West ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Spiritual Tourism ◽  
Self Discovery

Contemporary society understands spirituality as an individualized "quest of self-discovery and reflection" that combines eclectic elements, while disregarding traditional religious organizations. This social context has shaped how sacred sites are managed and promoted in tourism, as well as tourist motivation and behaviour. Still, the information on religious and spiritual-related tourism remains Euro-centric, although around half of an estimated 600 million religious and spiritual travels take place in Asia and the Pacific (UNWTO 2011). In order to contribute to studies on the area, the purpose of this article is to explore the intersection of spirituality and tourism in a non-Western pilgrimage site utilizing the three categories of Olsen (2015) to interpret and organize research materials in a coherent format. The Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trails in Japan were selected as case study. Results showed a variety of Japanese-specific research materials related to contemporary spirituality and tourism that still draw some parallels to the West. Following Olsen's categories, the case study showed mainly elements from spiritual tourism, with some from New Age tourism as well. Wellness was a particularly emphasized characteristic. Further research is suggested to develop Olsen's categorization and to deepen the study of non-Western tourism contexts of contemporary spirituality in different areas.

The O-Bento Principle for Successful Multi-sector Collaboration: A Case Study of DMO Roppongi

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Aki Shimbo ◽  
Amna Javed ◽  
Youji Kohda
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Marketing Organization ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Destination Marketing Organization

This article presents empirical research that seeks to investigate the principles of management that lead towards successful multi-sector collaboration through the analysis lens of effectuation theory. The target of this empirical research is a destination marketing organization (DMO) considered to be a classic example of multi-sector collaboration focusing on the destination management performed by DMO as a case study. DMO Roppongi in Tokyo has been selected as the sample for this empirical research, and in particular, Nogi Shrine (Nogi-Jinja) has been selected as a venue for inbound meetings and a successful case of destination management. In Japan, shrines are considered as sacred sites; hence, the research began with the question: ‘Why was Nogi Shrine provided as a venue?’. We interviewed both the executive director of DMO Roppongi and the contact person at Nogi Shrine and conducted a qualitative analysis by focusing on the management features emerged during the process of venue selection. In the world of start-ups, entrepreneurs are required to search for business opportunities proactively, but this research has investigated that in the multi-sector collaboration, the abundant resources are mainly possessed by the participating stakeholders that can be associated with the business opportunities. Hence, the key management point in this case is the impartial use of the resources ‘that are already there’ and available for use. This research has formulated this discovery, as ‘the O-Bento principle’ in line with the effectuation theory.

Gender and the (In)divisibility of Contested Sacred Places: The Case of Women for the Temple

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 812-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihi Ben Shitrit
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The Temple

Abstract Contested sacred sites, over which different religious groups assert claims to exclusivity, have drawn scholarly attention to the spatial interaction between religion and politics. However, the gendered dimensions of inter-communal religious-political disputes over sacred space, and women's roles in these site-specific conflicts, have been largely neglected. Using a case study of Orthodox Jewish women's activism for access to Temple Mount al-Haram al-Sharif, this article demonstrates how attention to gender and to women's engagement in inter-communal conflict over sacred places can illuminate unique intra-communal processes that aim to make a contested sacred site increasingly indivisible for parties to the conflict.

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