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 Horizons:  Canada’s emerging identity /Michael Cranny

 I. Lilias Trotter [electronic resource] “Lalla Lili” (the Arabs’ name for her): founder of the Algiers Mission Band /Blanche Pigott. This is one of the standard biographies of Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853-1928).

 Christianity, democracy, and the shadow of Constantine /George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou, editors. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians reflecting on their tradition’s relationship to liberal democracy. The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age.

 Monkey trouble: the scandal of posthumanism /Christopher Peterson. Monkey Trouble argues that the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism promotes a cosmocracy that absolves one from engaging in those discriminatory decisions that condition hospitality as such. Engaging with recent theoretical developments in speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, as well as ape and parrot language studies, the book offers close readings of literary works by J.M. Coetzee, Charles Chesnutt, and Walt Whitman and films by Alfonso Cuarón and Lars von Trier. Anthropocentrism, Peterson argues, cannot be displaced through a logic of reversal that elevates immanence above transcendence, horizontality over verticality. This decentering must cultivate instead a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness.