Religions – June 2014
General & comparative
- Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar.
- Scriptural polemics: the Qur’an and other religions / Mun’im Sirry.
- Feeding the dead: ancestor worship in ancient India / Matthew R. Sayers.
- Street shrines of Kirtipur, Nepal: as long as the sun and moon endure / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy, Sukra Sagar Shreshta.
Buddhism
Christianity (Western & Eastern)
- Syriac idiosyncrasies: theology and hermeneutics in early Syriac literature / by Serge Ruzer, Aryeh Kofsky.
- Architecture and ritual in the churches of Constantinople: ninth to fifteenth centuries / Vasileios Marinis, The Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University.
- Christ’s Resurrection in early Christianity: and the making of the New Testament / Markus Vinzent
- Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church / edited by Daniel Buxhoeveden and Gayle Woloschak.
Hinduism
Islam
- State, religion, and revolution in Iran, 1796 to the present / Behrooz Moazami.
- Şehrengiz, urban rituals and deviant Sufi mysticism in Ottoman Istanbul / by B. Deniz Çalış-Kural.
- Secular state and religious society: two forces in play in Turkey / edited by Berna Turam.
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