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key	UI7NX97S
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
item type	Book
publication year	2015
date	2015
ISBN	978-1-891928-19-2 1-891928-19-8
abstract note	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.
number pages	xv, 123
publisher	Educator's International Press
place	Kingston NY
language	English
manual tags	INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; BIOGRAPHY; HOME; MAINE; MEDITATIONS; MILLER, BRADFORD; PHIPPSBURG
edition	First edition.

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