Keepers of the Story
eBook - ePub

Keepers of the Story

Oral Traditions in Religion

  1. 211 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Keepers of the Story

Oral Traditions in Religion

About this book

More wonderful tales—and how to tell them—from master storyteller Megan McKenna. A coyote, a woodcutter, a Buddhist Zen master, a boy named Samuel, a Sufi mystic, two men walking to Emmaus—all are central characters in stories told by Megan McKenna. As we listen to "Once upon a time, " their lives become our lives. We learn from their mistakes and profit from their wisdom. Megan McKenna's stories are drawn from many religious traditions—Hebrew Scriptures, Sufi mysticism, Native American traditions, Eastern religions, and the Christian Gospels. Keepers of the Story also offers readers fascinating and helpful information about storytelling itself. In the final chapter, McKenna explores how the storyteller becomes theologian, talking and teaching about God, the Keeper of the Story of us all.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. A Word about Words and Sounds
  8. 2. Opening Your Mouth Utterance and the Unspeakable
  9. 3. Tell Me a Story Oral and Written Traditions
  10. 4. Words in Israel’s Tradition
  11. 5. The Word Made Flesh Story as Person
  12. 6. Tellings, Teachings, Parables, Koans
  13. 7. Storytelling and Community Native American, Latin American and African Traditions
  14. 8. Stories and the Mystical Tradition
  15. 9. Storytelling in Practice and Performance
  16. 10. Opening Your Mouth and Coming True