Donald Wiebe critically examines the pervasive assumption that theology is a form of religious thought that is both compatible with and supportive of religious faith. The irony, he argues, is that theology is in fact detrimental to religion and the religious way of life.
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 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.
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 that God is One and all-p…
A study of a time when Europeans sought to learn from China's successful model of political economy
A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.
The inescapable political dimensions of missionary enterprises were never more obvious than during the turbulent period from 1870 to 1918. As world powers expanded and often collided in all too concrete political, economic, and military terms, leaders of Britain's major missiona…
Badiou's Deleuze
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Should Religion Be Evicted from the Public Square? -- 2 Are Our "Values Conversations" Sufficiently Open and Free? The University as a Test Case -- 3 Is the Concept of Human Dignity Useful, Useless, or Dangerou…
