Religions – May 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 16, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative & thematic

• A moving faith: mega churches go South / edited by Jonathan D. James
• Memento mori: the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris
• The attraction of religion: a new evolutionary psychology of religion / edited by Jason Slone, James Van Slyke.

African religions

• The public face of African new religious movements in diaspora: imagining the religious other / edited by Afe Adogame

Buddhism

• Spells, images, and mandalas: tracing the evolution of esoteric Buddhist rituals / Koichi Shinohara

Christianity (Western & Eastern)

• Mystical and missionary spirituality of blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara / Jose Eroorickal
• Empowered womanhood: blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara’s socio-pastoral vision for women and the legacy of the congregation of the Mother of Carmel / Navya Maria
• A moving faith: mega churches go South / edited by Jonathan D. James
• The Copts and the west, 1439-1822: the European discovery of the Egyptian church / Alastair Hamilton.
• Copts at the crossroads: the challenges of building inclusive democracy in contemporary Egypt / Mariz Tadros
• The book of the people: how to read the Bible / A. N. Wilson
• Armenian Christianity today: identity politics and popular practice / edited by Alexander Agadjanian
• Christianity in the modern world: changes and controversies / edited by Giselle Vincett and Elijah Obinna ; with Elixabeth Olson and Afe Adogame
  

Hinduism

• Roots, branches, and seeds: the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo examined in the light of Indian tradition, colonial modernity, and one another / Peter Heehs

Islam

• Sufis and Salafis in the contemporary age / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

Jainism

• Social consciousness in Jainism / edited by Shugan C. Jain, Prakash C. Jain

Judaism

• The Oxford encyclopedia of the Bible and law / Brent A. Strawn, editor in chief

Zoroastrianism

• The Wiley Blackwell companion to Zoroastrianism / Edited by Michael Stausberg and Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina