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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... sometime prime minister , Benjamin Disraeli ( in the title of one of his novels , Sybil , or the Two Nations ) ... sometimes disastrous it can be . For Arnold , it took the form of a choice between a society with civil ceremonies ...
... sometime prime minister , Benjamin Disraeli ( in the title of one of his novels , Sybil , or the Two Nations ) ... sometimes disastrous it can be . For Arnold , it took the form of a choice between a society with civil ceremonies ...
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... Sometimes I live in town . Sometimes I take a great notion , To jump into the river and drown . Let's look at one song that may be less well known these days , called " When the Work's All Done This Fall . " It was written in the 1890s ...
... Sometimes I live in town . Sometimes I take a great notion , To jump into the river and drown . Let's look at one song that may be less well known these days , called " When the Work's All Done This Fall . " It was written in the 1890s ...
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... sometimes we want to know . I suggested earlier that Rastafarianism may be the only genuine myth to have emerged from settlement and slavery in the New World . It is a myth of dispossession and dislocation , of wander- ing and exile ...
... sometimes we want to know . I suggested earlier that Rastafarianism may be the only genuine myth to have emerged from settlement and slavery in the New World . It is a myth of dispossession and dislocation , of wander- ing and exile ...
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