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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... meaning of the world , said Marshall McLuhan . He was talking about how we represent ideas and things , which is another way of saying he was talking about babbling and doodling . Building shape and meaning is what we do in our stories ...
... meaning of the world , said Marshall McLuhan . He was talking about how we represent ideas and things , which is another way of saying he was talking about babbling and doodling . Building shape and meaning is what we do in our stories ...
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... meaning . It is not anybody's exclusive Jerusalem , neither Arab nor Jew nor Rastafarian nor Presbyterian , nor even the Jerusalem of William Blake's great hymn . It is a meaningless sign linked to a meaningless sound out of which we ...
... meaning . It is not anybody's exclusive Jerusalem , neither Arab nor Jew nor Rastafarian nor Presbyterian , nor even the Jerusalem of William Blake's great hymn . It is a meaningless sign linked to a meaningless sound out of which we ...
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... meanings of " fall " that he is using . In the chorus , " fall " refers both to the season — a season of harvest , of the round - up and shipping of cattle — and to the sinner who has fallen from grace . ( As the first verse has it ...
... meanings of " fall " that he is using . In the chorus , " fall " refers both to the season — a season of harvest , of the round - up and shipping of cattle — and to the sinner who has fallen from grace . ( As the first verse has it ...
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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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