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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... Sounds like one of those Majorcan stories that begin , " It was , and it was not . ” Admittedly , some of the contradictions that emerged from Cantor's theory proved to be very awkward , and preoccupied the next generation of ...
... Sounds like one of those Majorcan stories that begin , " It was , and it was not . ” Admittedly , some of the contradictions that emerged from Cantor's theory proved to be very awkward , and preoccupied the next generation of ...
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... sounds and movement in the arts and the sciences that together constitute our cultures and give shape and char ... sound and rhythm , and the eye that is attentive to pattern and design , that make available their imaginative resources ...
... sounds and movement in the arts and the sciences that together constitute our cultures and give shape and char ... sound and rhythm , and the eye that is attentive to pattern and design , that make available their imaginative resources ...
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... sound like the tinkling of small bells came to her ears . The river was back , and Martha too . She turned those sounds into a story that gave form to her grief and a way to talk about it . How this happens , how a kind of joy comes out ...
... sound like the tinkling of small bells came to her ears . The river was back , and Martha too . She turned those sounds into a story that gave form to her grief and a way to talk about it . How this happens , how a kind of joy comes out ...
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