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 122
... strange beginnings or sudden cataclysms - fires and floods , or spiders and coyotes and ravens and other tricksters , or things that go bump in the night . We develop faith in the ability of these strange stories to unsettle us . The ...
... strange beginnings or sudden cataclysms - fires and floods , or spiders and coyotes and ravens and other tricksters , or things that go bump in the night . We develop faith in the ability of these strange stories to unsettle us . The ...
Page 225
... strange to us . . . and in some measure they always are if we let them be . " This is my body , " says the priest in a ceremony of Christian communion , holding a wafer and quoting Jesus at the Last Supper . Then he eats it , and asks ...
... strange to us . . . and in some measure they always are if we let them be . " This is my body , " says the priest in a ceremony of Christian communion , holding a wafer and quoting Jesus at the Last Supper . Then he eats it , and asks ...
Page 231
... strange people who have strange habits and speak strange languages . There are all sorts of models in settler societies too , from medieval to modern Europe , of how such a change might be achieved , and how contingent sover- eignties ...
... strange people who have strange habits and speak strange languages . There are all sorts of models in settler societies too , from medieval to modern Europe , of how such a change might be achieved , and how contingent sover- eignties ...
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