‘Biker Revs’ on Pilgrimage: Motorbiking Vicars Visiting Sacred Sites

Pilgrimage Places and Sacred Geometries

Sacred Sites and the Dynamics of Identity

Local histories have long examined both the ties that bind communities together and the developments that make them distinct. As is evident in the term itself, "local" history takes as the most fundamental of these ties the connection of a group of people to a particular location. It is curious, therefore, that writers of local history have often taken this geographic connection for granted. Th...

Visiting All Sites with Your Dog

Given a polygonal curve P , a pointset S, and an ε > 0, we study the problem of finding a polygonal curve Q whose vertices are from S and has a Fréchet distance less or equal to ε to curve P . In this problem, Q must visit every point in S and we are allowed to reuse points of pointset in building Q. First, we show that this problem in NP-Complete. Then, we present a polynomial time algorithm f...

The sacred commons: Conflicts and solutions of resource management in sacred natural sites

Aesthetic and Spiritual Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Sacred Sites

The range and use of ecosystem services provided by urban sacred sites has hardly been considered in studies of urban ecology, sustainability and human wellbeing. This paper examines the perceived ecosystem services supplied by green spaces or gardens associated with places of religious worship and appreciated by worshippers in a mid-sized town in South Africa. A questionnaire with open, closed...