If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred SpaceStories give shape and meaning to people's sense of themselves as individuals, their cultures, their nations, and what is called "home." The stories we tell, whatever our ethnicity, race, or religion, both connect and separate us. If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? considers the hold that our stories--especially those about home--have on us and how we interact with others. |
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... brings the imagination and reality together in moments of what we might as well call faith . Stories give us a way ... bringing us closer to the irrational mystery at its centre . Why did my friend get sick and die ? Why is there so much ...
... brings the imagination and reality together in moments of what we might as well call faith . Stories give us a way ... bringing us closer to the irrational mystery at its centre . Why did my friend get sick and die ? Why is there so much ...
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... bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet ... then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can . " " The ... bring many smiles . But stories and songs about it seem to . During the 1930s and 1940s , when people were losing ...
... bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet ... then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can . " " The ... bring many smiles . But stories and songs about it seem to . During the 1930s and 1940s , when people were losing ...
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... bring reality and the imagination into closer contact , and in doing so illustrate how stories give us a way of ... brings us closer than we recognize to the everyday . With my old friends the cowboys , the same was true . They accepted ...
... bring reality and the imagination into closer contact , and in doing so illustrate how stories give us a way of ... brings us closer than we recognize to the everyday . With my old friends the cowboys , the same was true . They accepted ...
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If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred Space J. Edward Chamberlin No preview available - 2004 |
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