Parabola

Parabola 15:4

Hospitality

, ISBN Pb 15:4 / 978Pb 15:4, Parabola

"Philoxenia and Hospitality" by Lambros Kamperidis - Traditional and classical views of the guest-host relationship

"What Holds the Water, What Holds the Light" by Linda Hogan - Vessels for an exchange of grace

"The Stranger Within" by Helen M. Luke - The journey to self-acknowledgment and wholeness

"The Hostage and the Parasite" by Paul Jordan-Smith - Distortions of the host-guest relationship

ARCS: "Room for the Dance"

"Giveaway for the Gods": An interview with Arthur Amiotte - A Lakota artist speaks of ceremonial exchange among the Sioux

"Knights Hospitallers" by Philip Zaleski - The rise and fall of a chivalric order of Christian caregiving

"Stone Soup" by P. L. Travers - The story of the sly traveller

"Days with Albert Schweitzer" by Frederick Franck - Personal glimpses of a uniquely hospitable twentieth-century legend

"And He Ran to Greet Them" by Daniel S. Wolk - Abraham as a prototype of Bedouin cordiality to strangers

Tangents - reviews
"Surprised by Grace" by Rob Baker - Review of Babette’s Feast, a film based on an Isak Dinesen tale

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

"Three Tales of Mullah Nasr-Eddin" / Traditional
"The Boy Who Lived with the Bears" / Abenaki - by Joseph Bruchac
"Plain Welcome" / Amish - by Wendell Berry
"The Rich Man, the Baal Shem Tov, and King David" / Jewish

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Parabola is published quarterly by the Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition. Each issue includes: * Original articles and interviews on mythology, spiritual practice, religious tradition, literature, popular culture, science, and the arts * Retellings of traditional stories, myths, and fairy tales * Book reviews * Comments on contemporary film, theater, music, art, and events * Artwork ranging from the traditional to the contemporary

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