Religions – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 28, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & comparative

• Periodization and historiography of Indian philosophy: [twelve lectures held at the fourteenth World Sanskrit Conference (Kyoto, September 1 – 5, 2009)] / ed. by Eli Franco.
• Handbook of contemporary Japanese religions / edited by Inken Prohl and John Nelson.
• Re-imagining South Asian religions: essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.  
• Politics of worship in the contemporary Middle East: sainthood in fragile states / edited by Andreas Bandak and Mikkel Bille. 
• Religion in the contemporary world: a sociological introduction [3rd edn.] / Alan Aldridge. 
• Habermas and religion / edited by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. 

Baha’i Faith

• The Baha’is of Iran: socio-historical studies / edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel. 

Buddhism

• A companion to Buddhist philosophy / edited by Steven M. Emmanuel

Christianity

• The Bible and Asia: from the pre-Christian era to the postcolonial age / R.S. Sugirtharajah.

Hinduism

• Gurus of modern yoga / edited by Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg.
• At the feet of Bhagavan : leaves from the diary of T.K. Sundaresa Iyer / edited by Duncan Greenlees.
• Bankura : a study of its archaeological sources / Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay

Islam

• Sacred landscape in medieval Afghanistan: revisiting the Faḍa’il-i Balkh / by Arezou Azad.
• Philosophie in der islamischen Welt [Vol.1] / herausgegeben von Ulrich Rudolph unter Mitarbeit von Renate Würsch.
• Last of the Lascars: Yemeni Muslims in Britain, 1836-2012 / Mohammad Siddique Seddon 
• Sufism, black and white: a critical edition of Kitāb al-Bayāḍ wa-l-Sawād by Abū l-Hạsan al-Sūrjānī ‪(d. ca. 470/1077)‬ / edited by Bilal Orfali, Nada Saab.
• Problems of Muslim mysticism / Abdul Khaliq.

E-books

• The Princeton dictionary of Buddhism / Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr. [et al]
• Religion in the contemporary world: a sociological introduction [3rd edn.] / Alan Aldridge.
• Religion in consumer society [electronic resource]: brands, consumers, and markets / edited by François Gauthier and Tuomas Martikainen.
• Social identities between the sacred and the secular [electronic resource] / edited by Abby Day, Giselle Vincett and Christopher R. Cotter.
• Contesting secularism [electronic resource] :comparative perspectives/ edited by Anders Berg-Sørensen
• Religions as brands [electronic resource] : new perspectives on the marketization of religion and spirituality / edited by Jean-Claude Usunier, Jörg Stolz.

Philosophy

• Nothingness and desire: an East-West philosophical antiphony / James W. Heisig 
• Periodization and historiography of Indian philosophy: [twelve lectures held at the fourteenth World Sanskrit Conference (Kyoto, September 1 – 5, 2009)] / ed. by Eli Franco. 
• A companion to Buddhist philosophy / edited by Steven M. Emmanuel
• Habermas and religion / edited by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. 
• Revisionist histories / Marnie Hughes-Warrington. 
• Global intellectual history / edited by Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori.