Raven Games
Published on 6. June 2024
146 pages
979-8-3852-1843-1 (ISBN)
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Raven Games is a novel focused on four characters: (1) David Elwin, who studies Grizzly bear populations in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada and who is drawn into the world of Haida spirituality by (2) Jamie Bear Mother's Daughter and (3) her Grandfather, Born of Songs, who is a Haida shaman, and (4) Jonathan Blue Heron, who is trying to escape from being a Haida by transforming himself into a white man. David Elwin and Jonathan become friends during the Vietnam War. David Elwin is drawn into the Haida world as a replacement for Jonathan Blue Heron by gradually embodying both the Haida worldview and a white culture's worldview.
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Paul O. Ingram is professor emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of several books, including Wrestling with the Ox; Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science; Theological Reflections at the Boundaries; Passing Over and Returning; and Glimpses of God, all published by Wipf and Stock.
