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Sacred Place

Sacred Place is a geographically located site or space distinguished by its intrinsic religious significance, set apart from ordinary environments through ritual, belief, or mythic association within a particular cultural or spiritual tradition.

431

Publications

19.2K

Citations

595

Authors

290

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

69

Variants

Sacred Sites

Parents

Children

Publications

431

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache.

Richard J. Parmentier · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 1997 · 1.9K citations

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Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity

Lily Kong · Progress in Human Geography · 2001 · 562 citations

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Religion and place attachment: A study of sacred places

Shampa Mazumdar · Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2004 · 400 citations · Full text

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To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual

David I. Kertzer, Jonathan Z. Smith · Anthropological Quarterly · 1988 · 338 citations

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Sacred places: War memorials in the Australian landscape

Kate Darian‐Smith · Meanjin · 1999 · 327 citations

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Authors

595

  1. SM
    Shampa Mazumdar

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    4 publications · 579 citations

    4

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  2. LK
    Lily Kong

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

    4 publications · 808 citations

    4

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  3. EB
    Edwin Bernbaum

    Instituto de Montañas, United States

    4 publications · 115 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. SM
    Sanjoy Mazumdar

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    4 publications · 222 citations

    4

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  5. AA
    Alison A. Ormsby

    Eckerd College, United States

    3 publications · 77 citations

    3

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1–5 of 595

Institutions

290

  1. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    768 citations

  2. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    2K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    110 citations

  4. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    67 citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    233 citations

  6. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    59 citations

  7. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    115 citations

  8. Nottingham Trent University

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    175 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 31 publications · 1.3K citations

    22

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  2. Mountain Research and Development

    6 publications · 210 citations

    6

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  3. World Archaeology

    6 publications · 154 citations

    6

    h-index

  4. Journal of Cultural Geography

    JCG · 6 publications · 166 citations

    6

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  5. Journal of Environmental Psychology

    5 publications · 659 citations

    5

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