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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... choice between false alternatives . It is a choice between being isolated or being overwhelmed , between being marooned on an island or drowning in the sea . We will see the temptation to make this choice over and over again in this ...
... choice between false alternatives . It is a choice between being isolated or being overwhelmed , between being marooned on an island or drowning in the sea . We will see the temptation to make this choice over and over again in this ...
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... choice that is so often presented to us , the choice between being marooned on an island and drowning in the sea . Stories and songs can frus- trate that choice if we let them . That's their great gift to us . They do so by constantly ...
... choice that is so often presented to us , the choice between being marooned on an island and drowning in the sea . Stories and songs can frus- trate that choice if we let them . That's their great gift to us . They do so by constantly ...
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... choice . Nobody can . Asking them to do so is a deadly mistake , for among other things it undermines their ... choices . They locate us in between , on the border between the true and the not true , the believable and the unbelievable ...
... choice . Nobody can . Asking them to do so is a deadly mistake , for among other things it undermines their ... choices . They locate us in between , on the border between the true and the not true , the believable and the unbelievable ...
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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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