Noah And Disaster Planning: The Cultural Significance Of The Flood Story
Date
1998
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Disaster Research Center
Abstract
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Disasters are both interesting and infrequent. Thus, understanding them usually depends on stories others tell us. Such stories frame our understandings and imaginations. With those stories at hand, we comprehend reality and history on the basis of what everyone knows. At times, however, it is useful to examine what everyone knows.
Keywords
Religion, Floods-general, Disaster Preparedness, Humor