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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Page 84
... hand , was really going to be his again after all . When we arrived on the small landing strip at Kowanyama , I was met by the government administrator rather than one of the Aboriginal leaders . As we got off the plane and Mitch saw ...
... hand , was really going to be his again after all . When we arrived on the small landing strip at Kowanyama , I was met by the government administrator rather than one of the Aboriginal leaders . As we got off the plane and Mitch saw ...
Page 152
... hand , there is his comment : " If I bear witness of myself , my witness is not true . " On the other hand , when the Pharisees put that comment back to him , his response is : " Though I bear record of myself , yet my record is true ...
... hand , there is his comment : " If I bear witness of myself , my witness is not true . " On the other hand , when the Pharisees put that comment back to him , his response is : " Though I bear record of myself , yet my record is true ...
Page 173
... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , & what art , Could twist the sinews of ...
... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , & what art , Could twist the sinews of ...
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