Religions – December 2013 and January 2014
General & Comparative
- Bible and cinema: an introduction / Adele Reinhartz.
- Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr.
- First light: a history of creation myths from Gilgamesh to the God particle / G.R. Evans.
- Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney.
- The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine / Julia Droeber.
- The war of the three gods: Romans, Persians and the rise of Islam / Peter Crawford.
- The Iranian Talmud: reading the Bavli in its Sasanian context / Shai Secunda.
- Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte / herausgegeben von Max Deeg, Oliver Freiberger, Christoph Kleine.
- Religion: antiquity and its legacy / Jörg Lüpke.
- Philosophy and the Abrahamic religions: scriptural hermeneutics and epistemology / edited by Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar and Bilal Baş.
- Digital humanities in biblical, early Jewish and early Christian studies. / Claire Clivaz; Andrew Gregory; David Hamidovic.
- Durkheim in dialogue : a centenary celebration of the elementary forms of religious life / edited by Sondra L. Hausner.
- Forgotten friends: monks, marriages, and memories of Northeast India / Indrani Chatterjee.
- Sacred: books of the three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam / edited by John Reeve.Post
Buddhism
- Theravada Buddhism: continuity, diversity and identity / Kate Crosby
- A comparative study of the Majjhima-nikāya/ Anālayo
- Buddhist heterodoxy of Abhayagiri sect: a study of the School of Abhayagiri in ancient Sri Lanka / Rangama Chandawimala.
- The lotus and the lion: Buddhism and the British Empire / J. Jeffrey Franklin.
- Ties that bind: maternal imagery and discourse in Indian Buddhism / Reiko Ohnuma.
- Master Yunmen : from the record of the Chan Master “Gate of the Clouds” / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Urs App.
Christianity [Western & Eastern]
- The Assyrian heritage: threads of continuity and influence / edited by Önver A. Cetrez, Sargon G. Donabed, and Aryo Makko.
- Eschatology, death and eternal life / Joseph Ratzinger ; translated by Michael Waldstein ; translation edited by Aidan Nichols ; with a new foreword by Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI and a preface by Peter Casella.
- Christianity and monasticism in Aswan and Nubia / edited by Gawdat Gabra and Hany Takla.
- Painting in Cappadocia: a guide to the sites and Byzantine church decoration / Cecily Hennessy
- Vom Euphrat an die Altmühl : die Forschungsstelle Christlicher Orient an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt / herausgegeben von Peter Bruns und Heinz Otto Luthe.
- Shenoute of Atripe and the uses of poverty: rural patronage, religious conflict and monasticism in late antique Egypt / Ariel G. López.
- Postcolonial resistance and Asian theology / Simon Shui-Man Kwan.
- The Routledge companion to modern Christian thought / edited by Chad Meister and James Beilby.
- Christian art in oriental literatures: Greek, Syriac and Coptic sources from the 4th to the 7th century / Tomasz Polański.
- L’hagiographie syriaque / volume édité par André Binggeli.
- Les liturgies syriaques / volume édité par F. Cassingena-Trévédy et I. Jurasz.
- Les pères grecs dans la tradition syriaque / volume édité par A. Schmidt et D. Gonnet.
- Les églises en monde syriaque / édité par Françoise Briquel Chatonnet
- St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai : its manuscripts and their conservation : papers given in memory of Professor Ihor Ševčenko, 27 November 2010, Stelios Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford / [publication was prepared by Cyril Mango, Marlia Mango, Earleen Brunner, with the help of Father Justin].
- Christian values in Communist China / Gerda Wielander.
Confucianism
Hinduism
Islam
- Reading the Qur’an in the twenty-first century: a contextualist approach / Abdullah Saeed.
- The Qur’an revealed: a critical analysis of Said Nursi’s Epistles of Light / Colin Turner, with a foreword by Dale F. Eickelman
- Secularism, fundamentalism, and the struggle for the meaning of Islam : collected essays in 3 volumes / Sadik J. Al- Azm, with a foreword by Stefan Wild
- A history of Shi’i Islam / Farhad Daftary
- Qur’ans of the Umayyads : a first overview / by Francois Deroche
- The Qur’an and the Aramaic gospel traditions / Emran El-Badawi.
- The study of Shi’i Islam : history, theology and law / edited by Farhad Daftary and Gurdofarid Miskinzoda.
Jainism
Zoroastrianism
- The Sīh-rōzag in Zoroastrianism: a textual and historico-religious analysis / Enrico Raffaelli.
- The spirit of Zoroastrianism / Prods O. Skjærvø.
E-books
- Zoroastrianism: an introduction / Jenny Rose.
- Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction / Keown, Damien
- Shi’ism : a religion of protest / Hamid Dabashi.
- Sinister yogis / David Gordon White.
Philosophy
- The political philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar : itineraries of dalits and subalterns / edited by Cosimo Zene.
- The Oxford handbook of world philosophy / edited by Jay L. Garfield and William Edelglass.
- Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney.
- Philosophy and the Abrahamic religions: scriptural hermeneutics and epistemology / edited by Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar and Bilal Baş.
- The Routledge companion to modern Christian thought / edited by Chad Meister and James Beilby.
- William James’s hidden religious imagination: a universe of relations / Jeremy Carrette.
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