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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... idea of a creator , there is no idea quite as bewildering as the idea of home , nor one that causes as many conflicts . It is a nest of contradictions . The late - twentieth- century image of the global village seemed to sound the death ...
... idea of a creator , there is no idea quite as bewildering as the idea of home , nor one that causes as many conflicts . It is a nest of contradictions . The late - twentieth- century image of the global village seemed to sound the death ...
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... idea of horses as useful runs deep . But it is certainly not the only idea . For millennia , horses have graced the walls of caves and castles , their form and colour and movement providing inspiration rather than income . They have ...
... idea of horses as useful runs deep . But it is certainly not the only idea . For millennia , horses have graced the walls of caves and castles , their form and colour and movement providing inspiration rather than income . They have ...
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... idea underlies the ideology of liberal individualism , in which the individual , rather than the group , is the focus of moral and political atti- tudes , and the community or state is admired primarily for the ways in which it provides ...
... idea underlies the ideology of liberal individualism , in which the individual , rather than the group , is the focus of moral and political atti- tudes , and the community or state is admired primarily for the ways in which it provides ...
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