New Releases by Michael Hurley

Discusses and prescribes possible solutions to the remaining ecumenical issues of inter-church relationships. The initiatives which result from and which enlarge and enrich this ecumenical vision lead to growing mutual understanding on the issues which c

The core of this book is a five-night series of meetings for parishioners who are interested in meeting together for faith-sharing -- expressing and developing their faith by prayer, reflection on the scriptures, listening to and then sharing with each other on a teaching arising from the scripture reading. At the end of the meetings, an option is offered to the participants to create a support structure for themselves in the form of parish cell groups. The development of these parish cell groups has revolutionized parishes where they have been set up. They offer maximum involvement for the parishioners in the mission of the church, mutual support in prayer, scripture reflection and faith development, and minimal extra work for the pastor.

A handbook for participants in the Come and See series of meetings that are outlined and explained in Transforming Your Parish.

This guide contains over 1000 entries listing Australian gay and lesbian writers and their publications, as well as subject entries ranging from AIDS to sado-masochism. Non-fiction as well as fiction writers are represented, and the text provides information on the reception of these publications.

John Richardson was Canada''s first native-born poet-novelist and ''The Father of Canadian Literature.'' Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson''s fiction rather than of his life or sociological importance. Hurley makes a convincing case for Richardson as an important early cartographer of the Canadian imagination and the originator of ''Southern Ontario Gothic.'' He explores Richardson''s influence on James Reaney, Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Christopher Dewdney, Frank Davey, and Marian Engel. Arguing that Wacousta and The Canadian Brothers hold central places in our literature, Hurley shows how these two works established a set of boundaries that our national literary discourse has largely kept hidden. Focusing on the protean concept of the border in the fiction of this man from the periphery, The Borders of Nightmare underlines the importance of boundaries, margins, shifting edges, and the coincidence of equally matched opposites in necessary balance to both Richardson and subsequent writers. In an age of postmodernism these novels – riddled as they are with discontinuities, paradoxes, ambiguity, and unresolved dualities that problematize the whole notion of a stable, coherent national or personal identity – anticipate and define a number of concerns that preoccupy us today.