Sacred Storytelling

Author : Johannes Strieter
Publisher : Resource Publications (CA)
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781725277427

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Sacred Storytelling by Johannes Strieter Pdf

After emigrating from Germany to Michigan at age seven, Johannes Strieter (1829-1920) served as a confessional Lutheran pastor in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana amid almost unbelievable hardships. Though not a well-known person himself, his life's path intersected with that of numerous distinguished persons--August Cramer, Friedrich Wyneken, J. C. W. Lindemann, C. F. W. Walther, and John C. Pritzlaff, just to name a handful. Through his recollections, we also encounter firsthand the Ojibwa; the Civil War; the establishment and founding of roads, cities, churches, and schools; and we travel by sea, lake, river, canal, railroad, horseback, buggy, stagecoach, and on foot. We accompany him as he nearly kills his sister; is spared in a terrible accident; falls in love; navigates difficult pastoral situations and decisions; gets drafted into the Union Army; buries some of his children; ministers to the troubled, misguided, sick, and dying; and finally retires to Michigan on account of deafness. Translated afresh from Strieter's original manuscript and presented with twelve appendices to supplement his autobiography, Sacred Storytelling is a treasure trove of adventure, perspective, entertainment, courage, and conviction.

Author : Marilyn McFarlane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781582703343

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Sacred Stories by Marilyn McFarlane Pdf

Provides children with an introduction to world religions, combining easy-to-understand descriptions with illustrations and retellings of traditional tales from faiths including Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

Author : Marilyn McFarlane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442441255

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Sacred Stories by Marilyn McFarlane Pdf

This comprehensive collection of timeless and powerful stories puts the wisdom of world religions in the hands of young readers. When attempting to find a simple, engaging, and unbiased approach to world religions for her own family, Marilyn McFarlane discovered such a book did not exist. Understanding how important it is for children to build both respect for and knowledge of a variety of religions, regardless of their own faith, McFarlane created Sacred Stories: Wisdom from World Religions. Each captivating story and accompanying sidebar facts and spot illustrations brings to life the key tenets of a particular belief system, while the comprehensive glossary and resource list enable readers to expand their explorations. Including easy-to-understand descriptions and essential stories from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Native American, and Sacred Earth, Sacred Stories is perfect for parents and teachers who want to expand young readers’ understanding of world traditions. The simple, informative, unbiased language of Sacred Stories, combined with its comprehensive resource list and glossary, makes it an ideal learning tool for teachers, librarians, and other educators.

Author : Mark D. Steinberg,Heather J. Coleman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253218506

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Sacred Stories by Mark D. Steinberg,Heather J. Coleman Pdf

Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, marriage and divorce, conversion and tolerance, Jewish folk beliefs, mysticism in Russian art, and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief, spirituality, and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political, social, economic, and cultural life. Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heather J. Coleman, Gregory L. Freeze, Nadieszda Kizenko, Alexei A. Kurbanovsky, Roy R. Robson, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Gabriella Safran, Vera Shevzov, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Mark Steinberg, Paul Valliere, William G. Wagner, Paul W. Werth, and Christine D. Worobec.

Author : Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199917365

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Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Pdf

Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual. In addition to interviews and observation, Ammerman bases her findings on a photo elicitation exercise and oral diaries, offering a window into the presence and absence of religion and spirituality in ordinary lives and in ordinary physical and social spaces. The stories come from a diverse array of ninety-five Americans — both conservative and liberal Protestants, African American Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Wiccans, and people who claim no religious or spiritual proclivities — across a range that stretches from committed religious believers to the spiritually neutral. Ammerman surveys how these people talk about what spirituality is, how they seek and find experiences they deem spiritual, and whether and how religious traditions and institutions are part of their spiritual lives.

Author : Laura Weigert
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801440084

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Weaving Sacred Stories by Laura Weigert Pdf

Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated book that features sixteen color plates, Laura Weigert examines the role of these tapestries in ritual performances. She situates individual tapestries within their architectural and ceremonial settings, arguing that the tapestries contributed to a process of storytelling in which the clerical elite of late medieval cities legitimated and defended their position in the social sphere.Weigert focuses on three of the most spectacular and little-studied tapestry series preserved from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: Lives of Saints Piat and Eleutherius (Notre-Dame, Tournai), Life of Saint Steven (Saint-Steven, Auxerre [now Musée du Moyen Age, Paris]), and Life of Saints Gervasius and Protasius (Saint-Julien, Le Mans). Each of these tapestries, measuring over forty meters in length, included elements that have traditionally been defined as either lay or clerical. On the prescribed days when the tapestries were displayed, the liturgical performance for which they were the setting sought to merge the history and patron saint of the local community with the universal history of the Christian church. Weigert combines a detailed analysis of the narrative structure of individual images with a discussion of the particular social circumstances in which they were produced and perceived. Weaving Sacred Stories is thereby significant not only to the history of medieval art but also to art history and cultural studies in general.

Author : Charles H. Simpkinson,Anne Adamcewicz Simpkinson
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062508520

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Sacred Stories by Charles H. Simpkinson,Anne Adamcewicz Simpkinson Pdf

This is an eclectic assortment of stories by popular authors, storytellers, psychologists and spiritual teachers.

Author : David W. Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030565220

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Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures by David W. Kim Pdf

This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism. In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of contemporary history.

Author : Kate Marek
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780838910795

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Organizational Storytelling for Librarians by Kate Marek Pdf

A primer on how to develop storytelling skills.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465499479

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Myths, Legends, and Sacred Stories by Philip Wilkinson Pdf

From lightning-wielding Zeus, the supreme Greek god, to protective Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love - heroes, gods, and monsters are brought to life in these retellings of myths from around the world. Myths, Legends, and Sacred Stories is a children's book that invites you to explore all the well-known stories from Greek and Norse mythology, and a range of other cultures across more than 100 tales. Discover the fascinating myths of Anansi, the West African trickster god who takes the form of a spider; the story of the Wawilak Sisters of Arnhem Land in northern Australia, who form the land as they walk across it; or the Slavic tale of Ivan as he chases the mischievous Firebird. Read about ferocious, man-eating monsters such as the Minotaur and Fafnir the dragon, and the legendary heroes that fought them, like Theseus and Sigurd. Also included are the legends of Robin Hood, and of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, epics from Asia, such as the Mahabharata and Gilgamesh, and a host of tales from Aztec mythology and a range of other cultures. As well as offering the retellings themselves, Myths, Legends, and Sacred Stories: a visual encyclopedia investigates the meanings of these primal stories, examining why these tales have stood the test of time over thousands of years. Themed features draw together elements that are common to myths from all over the world, such as shapeshifters, mythical beasts, and magical weapons. Panels on modern retellings, such as Percy Jackson and The Little Mermaid, help to show why these myths are still relevant to our lives today.

Author : Charles S. Tidball
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621510956

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Holy Visions, Sacred Stories by Charles S. Tidball Pdf

Author : Edward V. Tuttle
Publisher : Pathways of Lights
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0971648433

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Sacred Stories Sacred Dreams Bible Myth and Metaphor by Edward V. Tuttle Pdf

The Christ story as you have never read it before---up close and personal, insightful and thought-provoking. With a focus on the symbolic language of the stories, the mythic dimensions, Sacred Stories Sacred Dreams; Bible Myth and Metaphor takes you on a journey in consciousness from Adam to Christ and ultimately to the realization that it is---your story

Author : Nicola Grove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136170478

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Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs by Nicola Grove Pdf

This innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for learners with or without special educational needs. With sections that outline both therapeutic and educational approaches, the leading practitioners who contribute to this practical resource draw on their extensive experience, and distil their own approaches for the reader to use as inspiration for their own lessons. Providing a highly accessible combination of theory and practice, the contributors to this book: define their own approach to storytelling describe the principles and theory that underpin their practice demonstrate how they work with different types of story provide extensive case-studies and assessment frameworks for a range of different special needs and age ranges provide some ‘top tips’ for practitioners who want to start using stories in this way. Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs will be of interest to all education professionals as well as therapists, youth workers, counsellors, and storytellers and theatre practitioners working in special education.

Author : Leslie J. Linder
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738765464

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Spinstress Craft by Leslie J. Linder Pdf

Rise Up and Reclaim Your Feminine Power This inspiring guide is a rallying cry to find your unbridled voice through magickal practices and modern spirituality. Written for beginners of all identities, Spinstress Craft shows you how to rock your true self and unleash the magick that comes with it. Leslie J. Linder presents the spinster archetype in a brand-new light, transforming her into the spinstress—a strong and confident figure who has evolved beyond the expectations of the patriarchy. This rousing guide gives you an arsenal of meditations, spells, rituals, rites, and blessings. Discover potent magick for boosting self-esteem, beauty, love, and money. Explore techniques that empower your passions, nurture creativity, and inspire activism. With Spinstress Craft, you'll be confident enough to call the shots in your life and share your feminine power with the world.