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Author:
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Alastair McIntosh
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Title:
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Healing Nationhood
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Description:
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Book is As New Soft Cover binding, First Edition,
Curlew Productions, Kelso, Scotland, 2000. A new copy of this insightful examination of spiritual, community and land issues which face the Scottish Nation and beyond. Alastair McIntosh is a rare individual in Scotland, combining his gentle Celtic poetical insight with the ability to hold his own in the shark-infested waters of political activism. 'What is community? - How does it build nationhood? - Why is the land important? - These are the sort of questions that Alastair McIntosh addresses in this passionate and provocative collection of essays. The crisis facing the planet and humankind is too great not to be turned into an opportunity! That opportunity, he argues, is for well-grounded spiritual growth. It entails building beauty back into our relationships. It means making community with one another, with nature and through inner life - with what we might call "God.' - The lead work in this volume was commissioned by the Head of the Department of Economics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Other contributions range from an address that launched land reform on the Isle of Eigg, to work on ecology and poetry commissioned by the United Nations and reflections on topics as diverse as education, violence, ethnicity and the fishing industry. Alastair McIntosh, a Quaker originally from the Isle of Lewis, is a Fellow of Edinburgh's Centre for Human Ecology and an Honorary Fellow of the Schumacher Society. 144pp, some photo-illustrations, excellent bibliography, and colour cover featuring a Russian church painting of Jacob asleep on the 'Stone of Destiny', as he dreams of angels and the 'Stairway to Heaven'.
Size 8vo ISBN: 1900259958 keywords: community soul soil isle eigg trust celtic harris superquarry galgael eco environment Edinburgh Centre for Human Ecology Schumacher Society
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