[New from the Press] Transfiguring Mindanao, A Mindanao Reader

Transfiguring Mindanao, A Mindanao Reader, edited by Jose Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon, is a landmark in studies on Mindanao and the latest addition to Ateneo University Press's distinguished line of publications on Philippine Studies.

This book has 34 chapters with 44 authors mostly coming from Mindanao covering broad topics from history, social, economic, political, and cultural features of the island and its people.

Transfiguring Mindanao is divided into six parts:

I. History, Historical Detours, Historic Memories

II. Divergent Religions, Shared Faiths, Consequential Ministries

III. Colonized Landscapes, Agricultural Transitions, Economic Disjunctions

IV. Disjointed Development, Uneven Progress, Disfigured Ecology

V. Mediating Truths, Contested Communities, Making Peace

VI. Exclusionary Symbols, Celebrated Values, Multilingual Future

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“In the past, academics used the absence of a comprehensive text as an excuse for not teaching a course on Mindanao. This does not hold water anymore. Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon organized and edited a volume of the best works of Mindanao's top academics, ideologues, and public intellectuals. It is multidisciplinary, with authors from different generations, and covers the first-ever overview of Mindanao's rich religious traditions. Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon produced a fine collection.”

—Patricio N. Abinales, author of Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State

“Superb reading materials. No one else has attempted to present a current reader on Mindanao. These themes are deeply stimulating in an age of instant communications.”

—Michael O. Mastura, Sultan Kudarat Islamic Academy Foundation College Maguindanao, BARMM

“This is the Mindanao of many faces and facets. This 788-page book assembles a broad range of topics to help readers know and understand Mindanao better. A must-read for journalists, teachers, students, workers in non-governmental organizations and people in government.”

—Carolyn O. Arguillas, Editor in Chief, MindaNews