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Identities for Life and Death - Can We Save Us From Our Toxically Storied Selves? (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,114
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Identities for Life and Death - Can We Save Us From Our Toxically Storied Selves? (Hardcover): Robert J. Pellegrini

Identities for Life and Death - Can We Save Us From Our Toxically Storied Selves? (Hardcover)

Robert J. Pellegrini

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This book is all about stories. The stories that shape our identities and how those identities shape our destinies for better or worse, for good or evil, in humanizing or dehumanizing ways.

Working from the Shakespearian metaphor, All the world s a stage and all the men and women merely players, Pellegrini argues that only by understanding how our storied selves develop can we acquire the tools to modify the roles they dictate for us to play on the stage in the theater of real life. The author deconstructs a wide variety of what he calls toxic, dehumanizing, death-oriented self-scripts as well as creative, humanizing, life-oriented narratives of groups as well as individuals.

Following the Native American parable of two wolves engaged in mortal combat within us, one good the other evil, the fundamental premise here is that our identity determines which of our inner wolves we feed and thus, which of them will prevail. Pellegrini maintains that what s at stake in this battle between humanity s collective inner wolves, is not just the quality but the very survival of life on earth. From this perspective, as individual and group selves are humanizingly or dehumanizingly narratizedby the way we exercise our God-given free will in the choices we make, so shall life be impacted throughout the world. To advance the cause of detoxifying identities in our global society, the author presents a rationale and program for an international grass roots social movement aimed at achieving a universal sense of belongingness to a global life system.

You can watch and listen to a video in which Dr. Bob Pellegrini talks about this book, and why he wrote it, by entering Identities for Life and Death in the search bar at youtube.com.]

General

Imprint: Authorhouse
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2010
First published: September 2010
Authors: Robert J. Pellegrini
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 44mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 978-1-4520-5208-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > General
LSN: 1-4520-5208-5
Barcode: 9781452052083

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