Mqup imprint: 803 books
Doing Community-Based Research
Perspectives from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Community-based research (CBR) offers useful insights into the challenges associated with conducting research and ensuring that it generates both excellent scholarship and positive impacts in the communities where the research takes place. This depends on two important variables: the capacity of CBR...
by Michael Lusztig
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
It is tempting to think of liberal democracy in terms of immortality. Democracies have survived wars and depressions, Nazis and communists – so much so that at the end of the Cold War Francis Fukuyama famously declared the “end of history.” In The Culturalist Challenge to Liberal Republicanism,...
The Edge of the Precipice
Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short, rapid communication?...
The Return of Ancestral Gods
Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
As Ukraine struggles to find its national identity, modern Ukrainian Pagans offer an alternative vision of the Ukrainian nation. Drawing inspiration from the spiritual life of past millennia, they strive to return to the pre-Christian roots of their ancestors. Since Christianity dominates the spiritual...
Cause for Thought
An Essay in Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Does the fact that everything has a cause imply that all events are causally determined? Drawing on discussions from the history of philosophy, John Burbidge's Cause for Thought captures the diverse dynamics found in physics, chemistry, biology, animal psychology, and rational action. At each level,...
Turkey and the Armenian Ghost
On the Trail of the Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished. Turkey continues to deny the slaughter of over a million Ottoman Armenians in 1915 and the following years. What sets the Armenian genocide apart from other mass atrocities is that the country responsible has never officially...
Generative Thought
An Introduction to the Works of Luigi Giussani
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
The various contributors make clear the relevance of Giussani's thought to the North American and Western cultural and religious context. They point to an important element in all of Giussani's work - his proposal that the Christian Event is the answer to the deepest and most pressing questions in today's...
Is It Possible To Live This Way?
An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence: Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured.
Is It Possible To Live This Way?
An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence: Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation of the first part of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue of hope. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives...
Mad Flight?
The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
On 15 September 1896, nearly a thousand people prepared to board a steamer in the port of Montreal, headed for Santos, Brazil, and on to the coffee plantations of São Paulo, while a crowd of a few thousand pleaded with them to stay. Families were split as wives boarded without husbands, or husbands...
The Risk of Education
Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Luigi Giussani, a high school religion teacher throughout the 1950s and 1960s, grounded his teachings in the vast body of experience to be found in Christianity's two-thousand-year history. He told his students, “I'm not here to make you adopt the ideas I will give you as your own, but to teach...
The Oil Has Not Run Dry
The Story of My Theological Pathway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum has devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic...
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret...
Fertile Ground
Exploring Reproduction in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Ideas of choice and rights traditionally dominate discussions concerning reproduction and gender politics. Fertile Ground argues that the current political climate in Canada necessitates a broader understanding of the links between the politics of reproduction, the state, and gender relations. Three...