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Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States Since 9/11

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2008

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, instantly transformed many ordinary Muslim and Arab Americans into suspected terrorists. In the weeks and months following the attacks, Muslims in the United States faced a frighteningly altered social climate consisting of heightened surveillance, interrogation, and harassment. In the long run, however, the backlash has been more complicated. In Being and Belonging , Katherine Pratt Ewing leads a ...

Community: The Structure of Belonging

18 reviews
Peter Block

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008

what the world needs right now!
Peter Block has given us a blueprint for building community on all levels, local, national and even global. And the world can use more of it with all the incivility and violence! Cudos to Mr. Block for the timing and the wisdom in the pages of this book. -John Renesch, author, Getting to the Better Future; compiler, Building Community anthology

House of Belonging

10 reviews
David Whyte

Many Rivers Press, 1996

Truly wonderful, inspiring
This is one of my favorite books of poetry -- ever. Like many other reviewers have noted here, Whyte's poetry lacks that murky and inaccessible quality that so many modern poets seem to strive for, as if they DON'T want us to "get" what they are trying to say. Whyte's poetry, on the other hand, is accessible without being simplistic. These poems celebrate the art and craft of a careful writer ...

Belonging: Overcoming Rejection and Finding Freedom of Acceptance

4 reviews
Nancy Rockey, Ron Rockey, ...

Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1999

The book that changed my life
My sister gave me this book when I was going through my second divorce. It was not "just another self-help book". I have read hundreds of those. This book made sense out of all the confusion and chaos of my entire life. It combines the Rockey's own experiences with the true science of the mind and the emotions and how & why they work, and with the truth about the love of God. This book ...

A Sense of Belonging: From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream

4 reviews
Mel Martinez

Crown Forum, 2008

Excellent, easy read
"A Sense of Belonging" is not your typical autobiography of a Washington insider, which is certainly refreshing. Senator Martinez's story is quite unique, and it is eye-opening to see how he got to be where he is. This touching memoir chronicles both his transition from Communist Cuba to the United States and his transition from a boy to a man. Mr. Martinez was forced to grow up very quickly ...

Belonging: A Culture of Place
bell hooks

Routledge, 2008

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks examines in her new book, "Belonging: A Culture of Place". Traversing past and present, "Belonging" charts a cyclical journey in which Hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where ...

Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 (Popular Cultures, ...
Judith E. Smith

Columbia University Press, 2006

-- Elaine May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (Scala Translation)

2 reviews

North Atlantic Books, 2008

A beautiful union of Iranian poetic voices from around the globe
The power behind poetry is as much in what is written as what is left unsaid. Poetry is the art of a few punctuating words that evoke a meaning so deep within, reaching to a place where thoughts cannot be explained and words would not do justice. To read a book of poetry, is to immerse yourself in a place where not all can travel, only those with feeling and sometimes an eager imagination. ...

Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

4 reviews
Michael Ignatieff

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995

A revealing and relevant work!
First published in 1993, Michael Ignatieff's work focuses on nationalism in the post-Cold War world and identifies a crucial trend that is still encompassing every continent: where new nation-states are being forged and born, nationalism is the driving force, the backbone of this trend. It is far from being outdated or irrelevant in any way, and although nationalism brings identity and belonging, ...

The Spiral of Memory and Belonging: A Celtic Path of Soul and Kinship

10 reviews
Frank MacEowen

New World Library, 2004

A wonderful spiritual journey!
I would like to recommend this wonderful book on Celtic Shamanism. The Spiral of Memory and Belonging is a journey of the soul, and our connection with the earth and spirit realms that our ancestors were attuned to. There are exercises in here to help you get in touch with your ancestors, and explanations as to what a shaman really is. This book really opened my eyes to the Otherworld. ...

Visions of Belonging: New England Art And the Making of American Identity
Julia B. Rosenbaum

Cornell University Press, 2006

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, and Julian Weir, and other well-known artists produced images of quaint villages, agricultural labor, scenic rural churches, and the distinctive New England landscape. Julia B. Rosenbaum asks why and how a range of artists-including Impressionist and Modernist painters and sculptors-and ...

From Bondage to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narratives

Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2007

First published between 1842 and 1895, the autobiographical narratives gathered in this volume document the experiences of eight former slaves who eventually took up residence in Worcester, Massachusetts. Each narrative tells a gripping individual story, its author clearly visible in the dress of his or her own words. Together they illuminate not only the inhumanity of slavery but also the dreams and dilemmas of emancipation, tracing the ...

Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging

4 reviews
Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Seagull Books, 2007

Original, Brilliant
Although short, this book is one of the only inquiries into sovereignty that moves beyond the theoretical framework of Agamben, and begins to explore new vocabularies for addressing postcolonial subjectivity. Butler and Spivak breathe new life into a text by Ardent, which they use to theorize the relationship between language and sovereignty and expose an underlying condition of statelessness. I ...

Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality

2 reviews
Fritjof Capra, David Steindl-Rast, ...

HarperCollins Publishers, 1993

An Intriguing Project
The format of the book is to record the conversation between three men regarding science, theology, spirituality, and human nature. I found the discussions of theology in particular to be interesting, as one of the discussants is a monk. The topics are covered in a non-dogmatic way, with a genuine questing spirituality evident. Without descending into New Age pap, the book explores fresh ways ...

My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

59 reviews
Rachel Naomi Remen

Riverhead Trade, 2001

My Grandfather's Blessings, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
Real life wisdom for living life in balance and with heart. Rachel tells her stories openly, with compassion and great warmth. I have given this book to friends and family and carry its lessons in my own life. A lovely read, not at all preachy. Each chapter is worth savoring.

Longing for Belonging: Pilgrimage of Transformation
Diane Zimberoff

Wellness Press, 2008

This book offers an intriguing explanation for the yearning that propels the human soul toward emotional healing and spiritual growth. The very longing itself is both motivation to grow and illumination for the path to follow. This book is the story of one woman s healing journey, her yearning for God, and at the same time it illuminates the universal relentless longing of all human beings for connection with their Source.

Belonging to the World: Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture (Bicentennial Essays on the Bill ...
Sandra F. VanBurkleo

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Belonging to the World: Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. Placing the legal history of women in the broader social, political, and economic context of American history, this book examines the evolution of women's constitutional status in the United States, the development of rights consciousness among ...

The Belonging Heart: The Atonement and Relationships with God and Family

1 review
Bruce C. Hafen, Marie K. Hafen

Deseret Books, 1994

The third volume of a sacred trilogy
The Hafens write: "The Savior came to work out the great at-one-ment, not the great alone-ment." This final volume underscores our spiritual relationship to the Father of our spirits, to his Son, Jesus Christ, and to all of our mortal brothers and sisters.

Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion
Patricia L. Price

University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Landscape is the space of negotiation between human beings and the physical world, and rarely are the negotiations more complex and subtle than those conducted through the desert landscape along the Mexico-U.S. border. Patricia L. Price views the shaping of the landscape on and around the border through various narratives that have sought to establish claims to these dry lands. Most prominent are the accounts of Anglo-American expansionism ...

Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution

2 reviews
Holly A. Mayer

University of South Carolina Press, 1999

A good book to have
To say Camp Follower one immediately thinks of the harlots that followed armies through out history. This book pretty much puts a stop to that image though such women did exist most women who followed the soldiers in the field were anything but. In addition it covers all others who served teh armies in the field in a supporting role. Though it covers only the American armies of the ...

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