Defining work

For rural clergy, the lines between private life and professional life can blur. Their offices are often in their homes, parishioners are also neighbours, and professional duties are intertwined with emotional caregiving and volunteer activity. In a society that defines work as paid, public, and ...

Where is god?

In an extended interview with Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli, Julián Carrón examines our current place in time to revive the essential core of Christian faith. Where Is God? discovers and rediscovers the contents of Christianity, asking how they can be witnessed again in a society that is not ye...

The christian moses

How ancient Christian debates concerning Moses' ability to see God embroiled social rivalries and defined the limits of humanity.

In praise of mixed religion

Advocating for a profound shift in thinking about the mix-and-match approach to religion.

Relation and resistance

Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how these women are conceptualizing traditions in transformative ways, challenging prevailing assumptions about diasporic r...

Desiring a better country

Essays that explore the incoherencies of pluralistic secularism and pursue a Catholic alternative.

Prayer as transgression?

A compelling account of the ways that prayer shows up in public healthcare.

To give one’s life for the work of another

This volume presents spiritual exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, drawing from the transcripts of Father Luigi Giussani’s addresses. To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another explores the nature of God, self-awareness, and the fundamental components of Christianity, in the ...

Convergent knowing

A compelling exploration of a new epistemic framework for Christian ethical thinking.

At the origin of the christian claim

In At the Origin of the Christian Claim Luigi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify himself with the mystery that is the ultimate answer to our search for the meaning of existence.

The religious sense

The Religious Sense is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Avoiding sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience, Luigi Giussani shows that our ultimate needs for truth, goodness, and beauty constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in everyon...

The service of faith

Asking what is the place of religion in development work, The Service of Faith offers an ethnography of the Mennonite Central Committee’s Christian development work in Indonesia, exploring the challenges, conundrums, theologies, and ethical commitments that shape Mennonite service.

The journey to truth is an experience

As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas resonated with students and led to the birth of the Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth) movement...

The secrets of a vatican cardinal

A first-hand account of the Eternal City in wartime Italy from within the Vatican's inner circle.

Caught in the current

While Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current expl...

Catholic power in the netherlands

Dutch Catholics long constituted by far the most cohesive political subculture in Western Europe. For nearly half a century virtually all Catholics in the Netherlands supported a single political party - the Catholic party - resisting appeals from both the left and the right. Then in the mid-1960...

Contemplation and incarnation

Marie-Dominique Chenu was a key figure in the re-vitalization of theology and renewal of the Church that culminated in the Second Vatican Council. He successfully combined a return to the medieval sources of theological reflection with a new sensitivity t

The son of man in mark

Ephesians, baptism and pentecost

Patriarchs and prophets

Shaykh ahman sirhindi

Standing and understanding

The ethics of catholicism and the consecration of the intellectual

Arguing that the religious values of a particular culture can account for differences in the role of intellectual elites, André Bélanger compares the very distinct traditions of French Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism to demonstrate the strong relationship between the Catholic tradition ...

Christian ethics

The al-baqara crescendo

A study of the poetics and hermeneutics of the Qur?an’s narrative structure, focusing on Surat al-Baqara.

God's plenty

Religious life in Canada has changed dramatically in recent decades due to secularization and the population shifts resulting from urbanization and immigration. New varieties of pluralism have emerged, entailing massive changes in a culture once assumed to be almost uniformly Christian.

Not talking union

Why the majority of Mennonites rejected labour unions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Modernity and the dilemma of north american anglican identities, 1880-1950

In Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950 William Katerberg shows how evangelical, high church, and liberal Anglicans used contradictory ways of appealing to the past to make sense of their place and purpose in a North

Life and religion at louisbourg, 1713-1758

The French stronghold of Louisbourg has been the subject of numerous books and articles in recent years. However, Life and Religion at Louisbourg is the first comprehensive examination of the religious aspects of life in this outpost during the eighteenth century.

The methodist church on the prairies, 1896-1914

At the turn of the twentieth century economic development transformed Canada's prairie region, as the region's population exploded due to migration from central and eastern Canada and immigration from Britain, the United States, and Europe. This boom sev

A case of witchcraft

An extraordinary tale of passion, intrigue, and revenge, A Case of Witchcraft is the true story of Urbain Grandier, a seventeenth-century priest who was accused and found guilty of sorcery. Although popularized by Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun, the story has never been told in its entirety...

Aspects of the canadian evangelical experience

Canadian evangelicalism was a powerful religious impulse in the nineteenth century and continues to be a powerful force, with evangelicals making up fifty per cent of practising Protestants in the mid-1990s. Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience

The blue banner

On 10 June 1925, the date the United Church of Canada was founded, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Canada - including every Presbyterian congregation in Halifax - vanished. Even before the United Church came into existence, however, non-uniting Presbyterians were for...

The zoroastrian faith

Zoroastrianism has played a significant role in the development of the world's major religions. A tiny world-wide community of Zoroastrians still exists: a small group lives in Iran; others, commonly known as Parsees, are found on the west coast of India; and Zoroastrians from both Iran and India...

Idea of the victorian church: a study of the church of england, 1833-1887

The doukhobors

Communion and liberation

The Communion and Liberation movement, founded by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, is based on the belief that salvation is possible for everyone. It requires only that Christ be recognized as immediately present. Communion and Liberation: A Movement in the Church describes the origins of this movement ...

The canada fire

G.A. Rawlyk examines the remarkable growth and evolution of "radical evangelicalism" in British North Amercia from the American Revolution to the War of 1812. He argues that radical evangelicalism was the leading edge of Protestantism and was more democratic and populist than contemporary evangel...

The contribution of presbyterianism to the maritime provinces of canada

Presbyterianism was not only the largest and most influential Protestant denomination in the Maritimes during much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also one of the largest and most influential Protestant denominations in Canada. While t

A culture of faith

A comprehensive overview of evangelical Protestant congregations in Canada.

Fernand dumont

The innovative theological thought of a sociologist and public intellectual who turned to theology late in his life.

Ethico-religious concepts in the qur'an

A revelation of the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code.

Multiculturalism and religious identity

An examination of how religious identity is recognized and managed politically in two multicultural nations.

Is it possible to live this way? volume 3: charity

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.

Is jesus your personal saviour?

To George Rawlyk Canadian evangelicalism has always been, and still is, more accommodating that its American counterpart. In Is Jesus Your Personal Saviour? he sets out to define the quintessential nature of evangelicalism in Canada in the 1990s and to distinguish it from the more extreme evangel...

The diary of a country clergyman 1848-1851

The texture of life in pre-Confederation settlements has been traced chiefly through the published diaries of women in Upper Canada. The Diary of a Country Clergyman, a welcome complement to these narratives, introduces a male perspective on rural life in Lower Canada.

Wrapped up in god

Between 1776 and 1830 the Maritime provinces were the site of important waves of religious revivals. Focusing chiefly on Baptists and Methodists, George Rawlyk uses rich primary sources to examine these happenings. Most contemporary interpreters of revivals have explained them in terms of their s...

Harvest of souls

In 1632 Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune, newly arrived at the fort of Quebec, wrote the first of the Relations to his superior in Paris, initiating a series of biannual mission reports that came to be known as the Jesuit Relations. In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn presents a contemporary inte...

Between damnation and starvation

In 1997 the Canadian constitution was amended to remove the denominational rights of Newfoundland churches regarding education, erasing the last vestiges of a uniquely organized society. Until the 1950s and 1960s Newfoundland had been characterized by an

Ravished by the spirit

Ravished by the Spirit is a sympathetic yet critical account of the profound effect of Nova Scotia preacher Henry Alline and his New Light disciples on the nineteenth-century evangelical ethos of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and neighbouring New England. Alline's pietistic and mystical gospel was ...

The subversive evangelical

A close investigation of a new wave of "reflexive evangelicals," whose playful critique of their own faith wins crowds.

Recognizing religion in a secular society

What does it mean to describe our society as secular? And what role might religion play in its evolution? Are religious considerations a necessary part of coherent speech about human dignity or human rights? Are religious communities properly accounted for in our talk of a "social contract"? "Rec...

Evangelism and apostasy

In Evangelism and Apostasy, the first sociological survey of Evangelicals in present-day Mexico, Kurt Bowen evaluates the appeal, character, and future growth of the Evangelical community.

Nationalism and minority identities in islamic societies

The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of nationalisms was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in Nationalism and Minorit...

The ahmadis

Following on the work he began in Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and Orthodoxy in Pakistan, Antonio Gualtieri returned to Pakistan to continue his conversations with devotees of the Ahmadi community. He reveals how this traditional society deals with conflicts arising from contact with t...

Christian ethics and political economy in north america

In this religious and moral critique of liberalism, Travis Kroeker analyses how religio-ethical discourse is changed when it is translated into the economic policy discourse of North American liberalism. Focusing on influential representatives of contempo

Is it possible to live this way? volume 1: faith

A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church

Why the church?

From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. As a social fact, its reality given form by men and women, the Church has always affirmed that its existence surpasses the human reality of its components and that it stands as the contin...

A history of canadian catholics

A history of the first 400 years of Catholic life in Canada.

Scripture, skepticism, and the character of god

The intersection of the Bible, the morality of God, and the crisis of faith in Victorian England.

Generating traces in the history of the world

An illuminating work on the Christian experience.

Son of man, son of god

Catholic cults and devotions

Imagine a heart which has been ripped from a man's body, wrapped with thorns, pierced with a knife, and then placed on the man's chest; or a group of people who believe that wearing a small rectangle of wool next to their skin ensures that they will go to heaven - as long as it is brown wool and ...

Champions of the truth

Champions of the Truth makes available G.A. Rawlyk's Bell Lectures in Maritime Studies, given at Mount Allison University in 1987 and 1988 in honour of Winthrop Pickard Bell. Rawlyk links his earlier work on Henry Alline to his new research on Canadian Baptists in particular the Maritime Baptists...

Thinking about faith, volume 1: love

Why did the early Christians follow Jesus Christ? Why did they write books, have councils, celebrate the eucharist and other sacramental rites? Tibor Horvath proposes that love for Jesus Christ is at the origin of the Christian faith. In the first volume of a trilogy on Thinking about Faith, love...

Wash, wear, and care

How clothing and laundry provide a window on to the structuring of care and work in nursing homes.

Is it possible to live this way? volume 2: hope

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.

Missionaires oblates

Dans cette importante analyse féministe, Rosa Bruno-Jofré présente un portrait sensible et nuancé de comment un groupe de femmes -- les Soeurs Missionnaires Oblates, une congrégation bilingue d'enseignantes au Manitoba -- composait avec les structures patriarcales et les opinions, traditions et a...

Vatican ii and beyond

A look at the impact of Vatican II through the Canadian Religious Conference and the lived experience of Sisters Alice Trudeau and Mary Alban.

Rediscovering reverence

A surprising and insightful work, Rediscovering Reverence offers a rational explanation of what the modern western world calls "religion" and argues that it is not what most people assume. Questioning western culture's evolving use of the word "religion" over the last five centuries, Ralph Heintz...

Turning to the world

From lofty ideals to the complex realities of the Catholic Church's commitment to justice and peace-building since Vatican II.

Make/believing the world(s)

While it is often thought that a serious theism is largely incompatible with a radical ontological pluralism, Mark McLeod-Harrison defends the claim that ontological relativism not only requires theism but is consistent with traditional Christianity.

The risk of education

How an effective education gives young people the fundamental support of tradition and historical perspective, nurturing their ability to understand and discern.

The meaning of sunday

Explaining varying levels of religiosity and church attendance in Canada.

Beyond obedience and abandonment

A sensitive and challenging look at accommodating difference in religious education.

Crossing communities

Based on years of embedded participant observation in both Muslim and Coptic Christian communities in the provincial city of Beni Suef, Crossing Communities shows how everyday interactions reveal patterns of confident and casual interfaith crossing.

Religious inventions

Ancient writings, including the Jewish and Christian Bibles, reflect lived human experiences rather than mere dogma. Religious Inventions investigates the social contexts of these writings, exploring how modern views on religion can illuminate ancient texts and challenge our understanding of both...

God, science, and self

Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary conversations about Islam, modernit...

A rabbi talks with jesus, revised edition

Imagine yourself transported two thousand years back in time to Galilee at the moment of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. After hearing it, would you abandon your religious beliefs and ideology to follow him, or would you hold on to your own beliefs and walk away? In A Rabbi Talks with Jesus Jacob Neu...

The covenanters in canada

A sensitive and nuanced narrative of a dissenting religious minority in a pluralistic society.

The theology of the oral torah

The Theology of the Oral Torah demonstrates the cogency and inner rationality of the classical statement of Judaism in the Oral Torah, bringing a theological assessment to bear on the whole of rabbinic literature. Jacob Neusner shows how the proposition

A generative thought

Luigi Giussani, born in 1922, is one of the most influential thinkers and leaders in the Catholic world today. He is the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, now present in more than seventy countries worldwide, with a membership well in excess of 100,000. In addition, h...

A full-orbed christianity

Challenging widely held views that religious institutions entered a period of decline and irrelevance after 1900, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau argue that the Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Churches enjoyed their greatest cultural influence dur

Seeding buddhism with multiculturalism

How Buddhist immigrants in Toronto transmit their teachings and traditions to the next generation.

Households of faith

Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and public, offe

Evangelicals and the continental divide

In Evangelicals and the Continental Divide Sam Reimer finds surprising levels of uniformity among evangelicals on both sides of the border. He shows that both American and Canadian evangelicals share highly similar religious identities, central beliefs, moral and subcultural boundaries, and socia...

The waning of the green

Most historical accounts of the Irish Catholic community in Toronto describe it as a poor underclass of society, ghettoized by the largely British, Protestant population and characterized by the sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics that ea

Identities under construction

Examining how young adults construct their sexual, gender, and religious identities.