Religions – August 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 4, 2015|Religions|

Comparative and thematic

• Modernities, memory and mutations: Grace Davie and the study of religion / edited by Abby Day, Mia Lövheim
• Religion in hip hop: mapping the new terrain in the US / edited by Monica R. Miller, Anthony B. Pinn, Bernard “Bun B” Freeman; preface by Michael Eric Dyson. –
• Religion and power: no logos without mythos / David Martin, London School of Economics, UK

Buddhism

• The Buddha pill: can meditation actually change you? / Dr Miguel Farias & Catherine Wikholm
• The yogin & the madman: reading the biographical corpus of Tibet’s great saint Milarepa / Andrew Quintman.

Christianity (Western and Eastern)

• Missionary stories and the formation of the Syriac churches / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
• Christian women in the Greek papyri of Egypt to 400 CE / Erica A. Mathieson
• The uniquely African controversy: studies on Donatist Christianity / edited by Anthony Dupont, Matthew Alan Gaumer, and Mathijs Lamberigts ; in collaboration with Nicolas De Maeyer and Bart van Egmond –
• Missionary families: race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier / Emily J. Manktelow

Islam

• Islamic myths and memories: mediators of globalization / edited by Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick, Ulrika Mårtensson –  [also available as an e-book]

Philosophy

• Categorisation in Indian philosophy: thinking inside the box / edited by Jessica Frazier 
• Religion and power: no logos without mythos / David Martin, London School of Economics, UK

E-Books

• A natural history of natural theology: the cognitive science of theology and philosophy of religion / Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt.