Religions – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 12, 2013|Religions|0 comments

e-books

• The genesis of the bodhisattva ideal / Anālayo ; [Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg].  [open-access e-book via University of Hamburg]
• The Palaeolithic origins of human burial / Paul Pettitt [e-book via ebrary]
• Introduction to the history of Indian Buddhism / by Eugène Burnouf; translated by Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr. [e-book via ebrary]

Books

• Les religieuses et le culte de Marduk dans le royaume de Babylone / Lucile Barberon.
• Controversies in contemporary Islam / Oliver Leaman.
• Law and piety in medieval Islam / Megan H. Reid.
• Christian identity amid Islam in medieval Spain / by Charles L. Tieszen.
• Images of cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine art: God’s blueprint of creation / by Shulamit Laderman.
• The religious life of Nabataea / by Peter Alpass.
• The handbook on cults and sects in America [Part B] / editors, David G. Bromley, Jeffrey K. Hadden
• Zoroastrianism: an introduction / Jenny Rose.
  [also available as an e-book via ebrary]
• The politics of iconoclasm: religion, violence and the culture of image-breaking in Christianity and Islam / James Noyes.  
• The Buddha: a beginner’s guide / John S. Strong.
• Life of the Buddha / by Aśvaghoṣa.; translated by Patrick Olivelle.
• Thus have I heard: the Long Discourses of the Buddha: Dīgha Nikāya / translated from the Pali by Maurice Walshe.
• The origins of the world’s mythologies / E.J. Michael Witzel.
• Hermeneutics: method and methodology / T.M. Seebohm.
• Perspectives on Islamic culture: Essays in honour of Emilio G. Platti./ Edited by S. Van den Branden, J.-J. Perennes and B. Broeckaert
• What the Buddha thought / Richard Gombrich.
  [also available as an e-book via ebrary]
• Introduction to the history of Indian Buddhism / by Eugène Burnouf; translated by Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
  [also available as an e-book via ebrary]