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- Title
"Nenhuma árvore no jardim de Deus era tão bela quanto ele": Turismo religioso e extinção da floresta de cedros do Líbano em relatos de missionários protestantes no Oriente Médio.
- Authors
Haizenreder Ertzogue, Marina
- Abstract
This article, from the perspective of environmental history, seeks to demonstrate how religious tourism, in the nineteenth century, became one of the factors that contributed to the devastation of the cedars of Mount Lebanon and to establish the connection between biblical literalism and the defense of the preservation of the forest of native cedars threatened with extinction, according to reports of naturalist travelers of that time. Finally, it is intended to answer the following question: why some biblical passages about the nature of the cedar forest on Mount Lebanon, a sacred place of pilgrimage for Christians, were put in check by science? To clarify this investigation, diaries of naturalist travelers, reports of Protestant missionaries in Syria and the press were consulted.
- Subjects
SYRIA; FOREST conservation; BIBLICAL literalism; RELIGIOUS tourism; ENVIRONMENTAL history; SACRED space; PILGRIMS &; pilgrimages; FOREST fires
- Publication
Antíteses, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 31, p114
- ISSN
1984-3356
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5433/1984-3356.2023v16n31p114-142