[Book Launch] Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader

Join the launch and book talk for Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader on 22 June 2022 at 3:00 pm at the Training Room, 8/F Community Center, Ateneo de Davao University. Simultaneously, a live stream of the book launch will be available on the Ateneo University Press Facebook page.

This event is presented by the Ateneo de Manila University Press and the Ateneo de Davao University Research Council.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Transfiguring Mindanao 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. The anthology is designed to be a reference book for teachers in teaching Mindanao from basic to higher education. Edited by Jose Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon, the book is a landmark in studies on Mindanao and the latest addition to Ateneo Press's distinguished line of publications on Philippine Studies.

REVIEWS

“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

“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