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Not etched in stone : essays on ritual memory, soul, and society

Print Book, English, c2007
University press of America, Lanham (MD), c2007
ix, 130 p ; 23 cm
9780761837022, 0761837027
1261845748
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 "From the Rock Came Living Water: Stone and Water as Vehicles of Ritual Memory" Chapter 3 "Light on Sacred Stone" Chapter 4 "Stone of Norwich, Ashes of Aushcwitz: Julian of Norwich and Etty Hillesum Finding Wisdom by Praying Life Experience" Chapter 5 "The Water That Shattered Stone" Chapter 6 "Warming the Stone Heart of a Child in Foster Care" Chapter 7 "Remembering the Children: Changing Trends in Child and Infant Death Rates and in Memorialization" Chapter 8 "As Unyielding as Stone: Group Behavior and the Question of War" Part 9 Index