Religions – October 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 4, 2014|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic

• Material culture and Asian religions: text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann.
• Objects of worship in South Asian religions: forms, practices and meanings / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold
• The family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations / Carol Bakhos
• Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don’t / Graham Ward.
• Religion in development: rewriting the secular script / Séverine Deneulin with Masooda Bano. [also available as an e-book]
• Religions and development / Emma Tomalin [also available as an e-book]
• Religion, religious organisations and development: scrutinising religious perceptions and organisations / edited by Carole Rakodi.
• Religious conversion: history, experience and meaning / edited by Ira Katznelson, Miri Rubin.
• Methods for the study of religious change: from religious studies to worldview studies / edited by André Droogers and Anton van Harskamp.
• Kant and the meaning of religion: the critical philosophy & modern religious thought / Terry F. Godlove.
• The structure of religious knowing: encountering the sacred in Eliade and Lonergan / John D. Dadosky
• Fields of blood: religion and the history of violence / by Karen Armstrong

Buddhism

• Scriptural authority, reason and action: proceedings of a panel at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, September 1st-5th 2009 / Vincent Eltschinger and Helmut Krasser.
• Translating Buddhist medicine in medieval China / C. Pierce Salguero.
• A Buddhist crossroads: pioneer western Buddhists and Asian networks 1860-1960 / edited by Brian Bocking, Phibul Choompolpaisal, Laurence Cox, Alicia M. Turner.
• Buddhism and iconoclasm in East Asia: a history / Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders.
• Dignity & discipline: reviving full ordination for Buddhist nuns / edited by Thea Mohr and Jampa Tsedroen ; cover design by Dede Cummings. [also available as a e-book]
• Government by mourning: death and political integration in Japan, 1603-1912 / Atsuko Hirai.
• Sayings of Buddha / illustrated with wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna for the Peter Pauper Press
• Buddhism: a short introduction / Klaus K. Klostermaier
• The Tibetan book of the dead: awakening upon dying / composed by Padmasambhava ; revealed by Terton Karma Lingpa ; introductory commentary by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu ; translated from the Tibetan and annotated by Elio Guarisco ; edited by Nancy Simmons
• Scriptural authority, reason and action: proceedings of a panel at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, September 1st-5th 2009 / Vincent Eltschinger and Helmut Krasser
• Zen koans / Steven Heine
• The experience of Buddhism: sources and interpretations [3^rd edn] / John S. Strong.
• To see the Buddha: a philosopher’s quest for the meaning of emptiness / Malcolm David Eckel.
• In search of the Christian Buddha: how an Asian sage became a medieval saint / Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Peggy McCracken
• Champions of Buddhism: Weikza cults in contemporary Burma / edited by Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg, and Alicia Turner

Christianity (Eastern and Western)

• A Christian pilgrim in medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s encounter with Islam / by Rita George-Tvrtković.
• Violence in ancient Christianity: victims and perpetrators / edited by Albert C. Geljon, Riemer Roukema.
• The philosophy of early Christianity / George Karamanolis.
• The Chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq / Philip Wood. 
• Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians: religious dynamics in a Sasanian context / edited by Geoffrey Herman.
• African and European readers of the Bible in dialogue: in quest of a shared meaning / edited by Hans de Wit and Gerald O. West [also available as an e-book] 
• Voices of Tongan women: theological reflections: women doing theology in Oceania
• A short history of the New Testament / Halvor Moxnes
• Restoring dignity in rural and urban Madagascar: on how religion creates new life-stories / Marianne Skjortnes
• The Coptic question in the Mubarak era / Sebastian Elsässer.[also available as an e-book]
• Christian churches and Nigeria’s political economy of oil and conflict: Baptist and Pentecostal perspectives / by Nkem Emerald Osuigwe

Confucianism

• Eastern learning and the heavenly way: the Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo movements and the twilight of Korean independence / Carl F. Young

Hinduism

• Hindu theology in early modern South Asia: the rise of devotionalism and the politics of genealogy / Kiyokazu Okita

Islam

• Muslima theology: the voices of Muslim women theologians / Ednan Aslan, et al. (eds.) [also available as an e-book]
• Medieval Muslim historians and the Franks in the Levant / edited by Alex Mallett.
• Islamic movements of Europe / Frank Peter and Rafael Ortega.
• Popular protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and post-Islamist politics / edited by Are Knudsen and Basem Ezbidi
• The Muslim Brothers in pursuit of legitimacy: power and political Islam in Egypt under Mubarak / Hesham Al-Awadi.
• Shi’i sectarianism in the Middle East: modernisation and the quest for Islamic universalism / Elisheva Machlis.
• A Christian pilgrim in medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s encounter with Islam / by Rita George-Tvrtković.
• Where Islam and Judaism join together: a perspective on reconciliation / Shai Har-El.
• An oral-formulaic study of the Qurʼan / Andrew G. Bannister
• The walking Qurʼan : Islamic education, embodied knowledge, and history in West Africa / Rudolph T. Ware III
• Islam and public controversy in Europe / edited by Nilüfer Göle

New Religions

• The Church of Scientology: a history of a new religion / Hugh B. Urban

Shinto

• Government by mourning: death and political integration in Japan, 1603-1912 / Atsuko Hirai.

Zoroastrianism

• Wrestling with the demons of the Pahlavi Widēwdād : transcription, translation, and commentary / by Mahnaz Moazam
• Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians: religious dynamics in a Sasanian context / edited by Geoffrey Herman.

E-books (August-October)

• Routledge handbook of religions in Asia / edited by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink
• Muslima theology: the voices of Muslim women theologians / Ednan Aslan, et al. (eds.)
• Religious reading : the place of reading in the practice of religion / Paul Griffiths
• The Coptic question in the Mubarak era / Sebastian Elsässer. [also available in print]
• Theravada Buddhism: continuity, diversity and identity / Kate Crosby.
• Dignity & discipline: reviving full ordination for Buddhist nuns / edited by Thea Mohr and Jampa Tsedroen ; cover design by Dede Cummings. [also available in print]
• Adjudication in religious family laws: cultural accommodation, legal pluralism, and gender equality in India / Gopika Solanki. [also available in print]
• African and European readers of the Bible in dialogue: in quest of a shared meaning / edited by Hans de Wit and Gerald O. West