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Sacralisations of nature beyond church-based religion in modern western societies

Thomas Kirchhoffa Research Group Theology and Natural Sciences, Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Heidelberg, Germany;b Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany;c TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany;d Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 19-32 | Received 13 Oct 2022, Accepted 06 Jul 2023, Published online: 26 Jul 2023

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