Religions – September and October 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 5, 2015|Religions|

Comparative and thematic

• A noble death: suicide and martyrdom among Christians and Jews in antiquity / Arthur J. Droge, James D. Tabor.
• Bones: ancient men and modern myths / Lewis R. Binford ; with a foreword by F. Clark Howell
• The study of religion under the impact of fascism / edited by Horst Junginger
• Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions: the contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade / edited by Christian K. Wedemeyer and Wendy Doniger
• Conversion in late antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and beyond: papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010 / edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Neil McLynn and Daniel L. Schwartz
• The denial of death / Ernest Becker
• The beginnings of religion; an introductory and scientific study, by E.O. James
• The gods of prehistoric man / Johannes Maringer ; translated from the German by Mary Ilford
• The dawn of belief: religion in the Upper Paleolithic of southwestern Europe / D. Bruce Dickson
• Claiming identity in the study of religion: social and rhetorical techniques examined / edited by Monica R. Miller.–
• Beyond religious freedom: the new global politics of religion / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
• Gender and diversity issues in religious-based institutions and organizations / Blanche Jackson Glimps and Theron Ford, editors  –
• Retrieving the radical Tillich: his legacy and contemporary importance / edited by Russell Re Manning  
  

Buddhism

• Buddhisms: an introduction / John S. Strong
• Zongmi on Chan / Jeffrey Lyle Broughton
• Mindful America: the mutual transformation of Buddhist meditation and American culture / Jeff Wilson 
  

Christianity (Western and Eastern)

• Christian missions in Bihar and Jharkhand till 1947: a study by P.C. Horo / edited by Jose Kalapura
• The Christian missionaries in coastal Maharashtra: encapsuling their historical, social, educational, medical & literary endeavours / Dr. Neeta M. Khandpekar, D. Litt
• Mazdéens et chrétiens en terre d’Iran à l’époque sassanide / Philippe Gignoux ; a cura di Matteo De Chiara, Enrico G. Raffaelli
• A state of mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity / Richard E. Payne
• Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the early Muslim world / Michael Philip Penn
• The Catholic invasion of China: remaking Chinese Christianity / D.E. Mungello
  

Islam

• Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the early Muslim world / Michael Philip Penn
• Religious authority and political thought in Twelver Shi’ism : from Ali to post-Khomeini / Hamid Mavani
• The first Islamic reviver: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and his Revival of the religious sciences / Kenneth Garden
• Women, Islam, and Abbasid identity / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
  

Zoroastrianism

• Mazdéens et chrétiens en terre d’Iran à l’époque sassanide / Philippe Gignoux ; a cura di Matteo De Chiara, Enrico G. Raffaelli
• A state of mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity / Richard E. Payne
  

E-books

• Theory and method in the study of religion [electronic resource] : twenty five years on / edited by Aaron W. Hughes.
• Imaging wisdom: seeing and knowing in the art of Indian Buddhism / Jacob N. Kinnard –  [also available in print]
• Spiritual ecology [electronic resource]: a quiet revolution / Leslie E. Sponsel
• Purpose in the Universe: the moral and metaphysical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism [electronic resource]. / Tim Mulgan

PHILOSOPHY

• The Palgrave handbook of philosophical methods / [edited by] Chris Daly

E-books

• Spiritual ecology [electronic resource]: a quiet revolution / Leslie E. Sponsel
• Paul Tillich’s philosophical theology [electronic resource]; a fifty year reappraisal / George Pattison
• Purpose in the Universe: the moral and metaphysical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism [electronic resource]. / Tim Mulgan