Bibliography: #BIB27854

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reference type	Book
title	Soul of the Maine House : For Those Seeking a Spiritual Home in America : A Radical Religious Reflection
author	Miller, Bradford
authority control	Bradford W. Miller
year	2015
publisher	Educator's International Press
place published	Kingston NY
ISBN	9781891928192 1891928198
abstract	Soul of the Maine House should interest those who search for deep historical and ecological understanding, but it will awaken spiritually those who wish to heal the historical hurt of the American soul, and to change their lives. The book is fearless in its ethical and moral inquiry of America's beginnings, but it is also personally revealing and even self-incriminating in its search for a pristine spot on which to re-imagine American spirituality in the woods of Maine and in the woods of the world, a new house indeed. In this way, the road excavation in to this thickly wooded building site becomes the occasion to understand early New England history and the apocalyptic encounter between Native and European. It also begins a cathartic, hands-on spiritual odyssey, as Miller says, "to his once and future soul as an American." Miller places the building of his process in the sweep of Maine history, from the time it was called Mawooshen by the Eastern Abenaki, through the political turbulence of the 16th and 17th centuries when the French and English vied for control of this land and its fur trade, until today. Miller's son designed the house, a remarkable Maine crew built it, while Miller and his wife camped out, cut firewood, stained 600 cedar clapboards, painted the interior, and recorded the process. "A sweeping meditation on the American environment, both physical and spiritual. . . . An attractive text for adoption in American studies courses.
notes	Bahá'í Faith mentioned throughout. LCCN 2014025731 Includes bibliographical references.
language	English
keywords	MILLER, BRADFORD; BIOGRAPHY; HOME; MAINE; PHIPPSBURG; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; MEDITATIONS
number of pages	xv, 123
edition	First edition.
call number	BL73.M548 A3 2015 204.092
accession number	ocn893974329

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