If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundStories come in many forms, from nursery rhymes and national anthems to poems and praise songs, and from the stories of science to the rituals of religion.They tell us where we come from, and where we belong; how to live and sometimes how to die.They hold us together, and they keep us apart.And all of them bring reality and the imagination together in what J. Edward Chamberlin calls a ceremony of belief. Drawing on his experiences in Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, Chamberlin takes the reader on an absorbing journey through communities and cultures around the world. |
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... listen to these stories in a different way ; we need to listen to them the same way we do to all stories of a certain sort . Did the Greeks believe in their myths ? Yes and no . Were they true ? Absolutely . And yet we need to keep ...
... listen to these stories in a different way ; we need to listen to them the same way we do to all stories of a certain sort . Did the Greeks believe in their myths ? Yes and no . Were they true ? Absolutely . And yet we need to keep ...
Page 147
... listen to the story - certain nephews and aunts and cousins were all dead ; and although he could put on the appropriate regalia and go to the designated spot at just the right time , it wouldn't work . It would be just words . All ...
... listen to the story - certain nephews and aunts and cousins were all dead ; and although he could put on the appropriate regalia and go to the designated spot at just the right time , it wouldn't work . It would be just words . All ...
Page 215
... listen carefully , we will recognize their interdependence . But often we don't listen , and extend the distinction into new definitions of difference . And so people say that Western by which they usually mean European — views of time ...
... listen carefully , we will recognize their interdependence . But often we don't listen , and extend the distinction into new definitions of difference . And so people say that Western by which they usually mean European — views of time ...
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