Recent books by Marquette faculty

 

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  • 2010
Global persepectives on re-entry

Global persepectives on re-entry

Dr. Richard Jones, associate professor of social and cultural sciences

An international perspective on the challenges facing ex-prisoners as they attempt to return to society after serving time in prison.

 


Enlightened monks: The German Benedictines 1740-1803

Enlightened monks: The German Benedictines 1740-1803

Dr. Ulrich lehner, assistant professor of theology

Addresses the social, cultural, philosophical and theological challenges the German Benedictines faced between 1740 and 1803 and how the Enlightenment influenced the self-understanding and lifestyle of those religious communities.


The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason and the Politics of Purity

The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason and the Politics of Purity

By Dr. Michael Monahan, associate professor of philosophy

A philosophical study of race and the challenges it offers, arguing that race should be understood as an ambiguous and indeterminate process of social negotiation.

 


Enlightened monks: The German Benedictines 1740-1803

Censored on Final Approach

By Phyllis Ravel, artistic associate professor of performing arts

A play chronicling four Women Air Service Pilots who gather to reminisce about their challenges and successes during World War II.

 


The Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Eighteenth-Century Novel

Edited by Dr. Albert J. Rivero, professor of English, and George Justice

Contains 10 critical essays and 10 book reviews spanning the 18th century, including Aubin, Defoe, Edgeworth and Austen.

 


Confronting the Climate Crisis — Catholic Theological Perspectives

Confronting the Climate Crisis — Catholic Theological Perspectives

Edited by Dr. Jame Schaefer, associate professor of theology

A collection of essays by members of the Catholic Theological Society of America’s Interest Group on Global Warming that demonstrate ways to approach the climate crisis from a Catholic, theological perspective.

 


Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

By Dr. John Su, associate professor of English

An examination of the preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors in contemporary Anglophone literature and a restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture.

 


Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11

Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11

By Dr. Alan Theoharis, professor emeritus of history

Describes the U.S. government's secret activities and policies during periods of "unprecedented crisis," recounting how presidents and FBI officials exploited concerns about foreign-based internal security threats.

 


American Boy

American Boy

By Larry Watson,visiting professor of English

A novel about a young man coming of age in Willow Falls, Minn., during the 1960s.

 


Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

By Dr. Sarah Wadsworth, associate professor of English, and Wayne a. Wiegand

Examines the progress, content and significance of this historic first effort to assemble a comprehensive library of women’s texts.

 


The American Journalism History Reader

The American Journalism History Reader

Dr. Bonnie Brennen, Nieman Professor of Journalism

Research and essays about journalism from all stages of the history of the American press — alongside key works of journalism history and criticism.

 


Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.:A Model Theologian

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.:A Model Theologian

Dr. Patrick Carey, professor of theology

A biography of Cardinal Dulles focusing on his distinctive personal journey of faith and theology, as well as the representative nature of his experiences and his thinking within the American Catholic community.

 


Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in
the European Imaginary, 1780–1820

Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820

Dr. Diane Hoeveler, professor of English

A study of what are called "collateral gothic" genres — opera, ballads, chapbooks, dramas and melodramas — that emerged out of the gothic novel tradition.

 


Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript

Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript

Dr. Stephen Karian, associate professor of English

An analysis of manuscript versions of Swift poetry, suggesting new ways of interpreting the different choices Swift made to circulate his texts in print or manuscript form.

 


Shaping Our Struggles: Nigerian Women
in History, Culture and Social Change

Shaping Our Struggles: Nigerian Women in History, Culture and Social Change

Co-edited by Dr. Chima Korieh, assistant professor of history

A critical reconsideration of women's positions in Nigeria by exploring their historical, developmental and sociocultural experiences across Nigeria's cultures.

 


Christian Ethics:
A Very Short Introduction

Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Dr. D. Stephen Long, professor of theology

A discussion of the relationship between Christian ethics and modern and postmodern ethics using practical examples of sex, money and power.

 


In the Age of Enlightenment

In the Age of Enlightenment

Co-edited by Dr. James Marten, professor and chair of history

Essays on family relationships, community, economy, geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the state, faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts during the Enlightenment.

 

All Are Welcome: Inclusive Service Delivery in Catholic Schools

All Are Welcome: Inclusive Service Delivery in Catholic Schools

Dr. Martin Scanlan

Theoretical and practical guidance for Catholic school leaders seeking to more effectively provide integrated and comprehensive services to all students.

 


The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers

The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers

Dr. Roberta Coles

An examination of the parenting experience of single, African-American custodial fathers who became single parents through nonmarital births, divorce, widowhood or adoption.

 


Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English

Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English

Dr. Tim Machan

Looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change, drawing on an array of evidence from archives, literature, history, polemics and the press, as well as centuries of legislation.

 


Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts

Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts

Dr. Jame Schaefer

A comprehensive analysis of theological traditions to respond to the growing environmental crisis for those who wish to live their faith with ecological responsibility.

 


Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11

Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11

Dr. Louise Cainkar

Provides an intimate view of what it means to be an Arab or a Muslim in a post-9/11 country set on edge by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

 


Children and Youth in a New Nation

Children and Youth in a New Nation

Dr. James Marten

An introduction to the many faces of childhood in American from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War, demonstrating that the growth of the republic and new ideas about childhood were inextricably linked.

 


One Baptism: The Ecumenical Implications of the Doctrine of Baptism

One Baptism: The Ecumenical Implications of the Doctrine of Baptism

Dr. Susan Wood

An exploration of the history and theory of baptism, focusing especially on the divergent paths taken in the understanding of the sacrament since the Reformation.

 


Faculty Stress

Faculty Stress

Dr. David Buckholdt

A comprehensive look at faculty stress, its causes and its consequences, exploring the wide range of factors associated with work-related stress, the sources and perceptions of stress in differing academic environments and gender factors.

 


Social Economy

Global Social Economy, development, work and Policy

Dr. John Davis

Examines the social nature of capitalism today, the possibilities for social and economic development in the world under the democratic leadership of the United nations, and the middle ground between market and hierarchy.


Being a Catholic in a Changing World

Rev. Jeffrey LaBelle, S.J.

Being Catholic in a Changing World discusses the key issues surrounding Catholics in contemporary society, such as “Can I disagree with the Church and still remain a good Catholic?” and “What does it mean to be a Catholic in the post-9/11 world?”

 


Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, The Triune God: Doctrines

Rev. Robert Doran, S.J.

A two-part examination of Trinitarian theology — the pars dogmatica, which traces the dialectical development of Trinitarian doctrine by Christian thinkers; and a discussion of the five theses outlining the evolution of the principal features of Trinitarian doctrine.


North Africa, A History from Antiquity to the Present

Dr. Phillip Naylor

A survey encompassing the Paleolithic period and early Egyptian cultures through the postcolonial prospects for Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Western Sahara.

 


Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha

Dr. Andrei Orlov

Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha — a study of two Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as the crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism.

 


Symbola Caelestis

Dr. Andrei Orlov

Le symbolisme liturgique et paraliturgique dans le monde deals with the liturgical dimension of mystical, ascetical, and hymnographic texts and traditions circulated in Christian environment, including different liturgical texts of the Coptic and the Byzantine rite.

 


Essential Plant Pathology

Dr. Gail Schumann

An introduction to plant diseases, basic concepts and vocabulary, the major pathogen groups, abiotic problems, plant diseases organized by symptoms, and host- pathogen ecological, physiological and genetic relationships.


After Representation: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture

Dr. R. Clifton Spargo

Explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies— the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature.

 


Augustine of Hippo, philosopher, exegete, and theologian

Rev. Roland Teske, S.J.

Contains a group of previously published articles on Augustine of Hippo that were written over three decades, grouped by philosophical aspects of Augustine’s thought, Augustine’s interpretation of scripture, and theological topics.