Here is a sample of the nine titles added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

EDUCATION

Indigenous integration: 101+ lesson ideas for secondary and college teachers /Dr. Adrienne Castellon.  “This book answers the many questions that educators have about how to Indigenize the curriculum. Castellon helps us to move past the struggle of not knowing what to do by showing us how to seize the opportunities and resources that are now existing. This book will help teachers and educators at all levels of learning realize the store of untapped potential for making the curriculum meaningful for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.” Matthew Etherington, Trinity Western University

 

HISTORY

Memory before modernity: practices of memory in early modern Europe /edited by Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, Jasper van der Steen. This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today.

The Netherlands Indies and the Great War 1914-1918 /Kees van Dijk. Van Dijk examines how in 1917 the atmosphere of optimism in the Netherlands Indies changed to one of unrest and dissatisfaction, and how after World War I the situation stabilized to resemble pre-war political and economic circumstances.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Awaiting the King: reforming public theology /James K.A. Smith.  Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would look different if we viewed them as incubators of love-shaping practices–not merely governing us but forming what we love. How would our political engagement change if we weren’t simply looking for permission to express our “views” in the political sphere but actually hoped to shape the ethos of a nation, a state, or a municipality to foster a way of life that bends toward shalom?  This book offers a well-rounded public theology as an alternative to contemporary debates about politics. Smith explores the religious nature of politics and the political nature of Christian worship, sketching how the worship of the church propels us to be invested in forging the common good. This book creatively merges theological and philosophical reflection with illustrations from film, novels, and music and includes helpful exposition and contemporary commentary on key figures in political theology.

Islam, a challenge to faith [electronic resource]: studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions /by Samuel M. Zwemer. Zwemer was known as the Apostle to Islam and was “one of the most celebrated Protestant missionaries of the twentieth century”. [His book on Islam remains as relevant today as when it was written in 1907.

The trial of Jesus [electronic resource]: illustrated from Talmud and Roman law /by Septimus Buss. In this fascinating little book Buss conducts a forensic analysis of the details of the trial of Jesus against their Jewish and Roman background. It would provide a good starting point for a deeper study of the subject.