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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Page 81
... feels like to be a stranger from the experience of being elsewhere , whether we went there by career choice ( Odysseus ... feel like strangers in the languages they now speak , in the livelihoods they have been forced to take up , in the ...
... feels like to be a stranger from the experience of being elsewhere , whether we went there by career choice ( Odysseus ... feel like strangers in the languages they now speak , in the livelihoods they have been forced to take up , in the ...
Page 100
... feel better by making you feel bad . They give you Charlie Chaplin , making “ a grail of laughter of an empty ash can " ( in the words of poet Hart Crane ) ; or Homer Simpson , whose sad - sack life makes my son Geoff howl with laughter ...
... feel better by making you feel bad . They give you Charlie Chaplin , making “ a grail of laughter of an empty ash can " ( in the words of poet Hart Crane ) ; or Homer Simpson , whose sad - sack life makes my son Geoff howl with laughter ...
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... feeling of being in the grip of overwhelming de- sire here below and of death hereafter . Not the real thing , of course , but the imagined one , with its promise of a peace that passeth understanding . We share that feeling when we ...
... feeling of being in the grip of overwhelming de- sire here below and of death hereafter . Not the real thing , of course , but the imagined one , with its promise of a peace that passeth understanding . We share that feeling when we ...
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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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