Study of Religions & Philosophy at SOAS: a selection of new titles received April & May 2016

By Mary Fisk|May 25, 2016|Africa, Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

This is a selective list of titles received on themes relating to the study of religions and philosophy during April and May 2016. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the entry on the SOAS Library catalogue

RELIGIONS

Comparative and thematic

Subverting global myths: theology and the public issues shaping our world / Vinoth Ramachandra – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013191

  • Sociology of religion, morals (philosophy), ethics (philosophy)

Death, ritual and belief: the rhetoric of funerary rites / Douglas J. Davies – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013441

  • Death, funerary rites, eschatology, comparative religious studies

Mindful Nation UK / report by the Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016647

  • Meditation (therapeutic use), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, mindfulness

 Routledge handbook of religion and politics [2nd edn.] / edited by Jeffrey Haynes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10014939

  • Religion and politics, comparative religious studies

 Les religions et les caricatures: les défis de la représentation / François Boespflug – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013562

  • Christianity, Judaism, Islam, blasphemy, offences against religion, freedom of expression, cartoons and caricatures (political aspects) , comparative religious studies

 A None’s story: searching for meaning inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam / Corinna Nicolaou – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016054

  • Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, comparative religious studies, spiritual biography

 Missionary impositions: conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious ethnography / edited by Hillary K. Crane, Deana L. Weibel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016261

  • Anthropology of religion, research methodology, ethnology, fieldwork

Canonization and decanonization / edited by A. van der Kooij and K. van der Toorn ; with an annotated bibliography compiled by J.A.M. Snoek – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016548

  • Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Bible, Torah, Qur’an, sacred texts(Christian), sacred texts (Jewish), sacred texts (Islam), sacred texts (Buddhism), canonical texts, Rabbinic texts , comparative religious studies

Buddhism

Zen Buddhism & psychoanalysis / D.T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard De Martino – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10015189

  • Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Buddhism and psychology, psychoanalysis and religion, sociology of religion

 Christianity (Western and Eastern)

God is no thing: coherent Christianity / Rupert Shortt – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10014957

  • Christianity, God (Christianity), philosophy of religion, philosophical theology

Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim: pluralism, dialogue, and co-existence / Mikael Oez and Aziz Abdul-Nour – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017006

  • Christianity (Syria), Syriac Christians, Yūhạnnā Ibrāhīm, biography

Christian Arabic versions of Daniel: a comparative study of early MSS and translation techniques in MSS Sinai Ar.1 and 2. / Miriam L. Hjälm – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10011565

  • Christianity, Bible, Biblical manuscripts, Book of Daniel, Bible translations, Bible (Arabic)

 Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the chariot that Prophet Ezekiel saw / translation and Introduction by Alexander Golitzin ; edited with notes by Mary Hansbury – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013173

  • Christianity, Syriac texts, Bible, Book of Ezekiel, Jacob of Sarug

 Religious violence and conciliation in Indonesia: Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas / Sumanto Al Qurtuby – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013342

  • Christianity (Indonesia), Islam (Indonesia), Malaku, inter-faith relations, ethnic conflict, violence (religious aspects)

African pentecostals in Catholic Europe: the politics of presence in the twenty-first century / Annalisa Butticci – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013572

  • Christianity (Italy), Pentecostalism, Nigerians (Europe), Ghanaians (Europe), African diaspora, sociology of religion, religious customs, immigrants (Italy)

 Les minorités chrétiennes dans la construction de l’Egypte moderne : 1922-1952 / Francine Costet-Tardieu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10014179

  • Christianity (Egypt), Coptic Church, Church history (20th century), religious minorities, religion and politics

Gli atti di Qawesṭos martire etiopico : (sec. XIV) / [edizione critica, traduzione e note di] Osvaldo Raineri – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016108

  • Christianity (Ethiopia), Ethiopic language, Ethiopic texts, manuscripts (Ethiopic), Church history (medieval) , Qawestos (14th century), martyrs (Christian), religious biography

 Idealism and Christian theology / edited by Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton; general editor, James S. Spiegel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016113

  • Christianity, idealism, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology

Idealism and Christian philosophy / edited by Steven B. Cowan and James S. Spiegel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016114

  • Christianity, philosophy of religion, idealism

 Handbook of global contemporary Christianity: movements, institutions, and allegiance / edited by Stephen Hunt – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016485

  • Christianity, comparative religious studies

Hinduism

Inventing and reinventing the goddess: contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move / edited by Sree Padma. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016258

  • Hinduism , goddesses (Hindu), sociology of religion

 Islam

Dynamiques religieuses et territoires du sacré au Maghreb médiéval : éléments d’enquête / eds., Cyrille Aillet, Bulle Tuill Leonetti – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013761

  • Islam (North Africa), Maghreb, history of religions, sacred space

 Religious violence and conciliation in Indonesia: Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas / Sumanto Al Qurtuby – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013342

  • Christianity (Indonesia), Islam (Indonesia), Malaku, inter-faith relations, ethnic conflict, violence (religious aspects)

Islam in America / Jonathan Curiel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016519

  • Islam (United States), Muslim diaspora, Islam and state, Nation of Islam, sociology of religion

 Sufism and Jewish-Muslim relations: the Derekh Avraham Order in Israel / Yafiah Katherine Randall. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016547

  • Islam (Israel), Judaism, Sufism, interfaith relations, Jewish-Arab relations, mysticism (Islamic), mysticism (Jewish), Derekh Avraham Order

 Manichaeism

Mani’s pictures: the didactic images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China / by Zsuzsanna Gulácsi.

  • Mani, Manichaeism, religious art and antiquities, iconography (Manichaean)

Taoism

Dao companion to Daoist philosophy [Ref. Only] / Xiaogan Liu, editor –  https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10015181

  • Taoism, philosophy (Taoist)

Zoroastrianism

The Zoroastrian flame: exploring religion, history and tradition / Sarah Stewart – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013493

  • Zoroastrianism

E-books

Only by failure [electronic resource]: the many faces of the impossible life of Terence Gray / Paul Cornwell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10015203

  • Terence Gray (1895-1986), Wei Wu Wei, Zen Buddhism, biography, e-books, Dawsonera

Africana Islamic studies / edited by James L. Conyers Jr. and Abdul Pitre – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10015652

  • Islam (United States), Nation of Islam, Black Muslims, e-books, Dawsonera

The origins of religious violence: an Asian perspective / Nicholas F. Gier – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016257

  • Comparative religious studies, Asian religions, history of religions, religion and violence, religion and politics, religion and nationalism, e-books, Dawsonera

The character of Christian-Muslim Encounter [electronic resource] / edited by Douglas Pratt, Jon Hoover, John Davies, John Chesworth – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016486

  • Christianity, Islam, inter-faith relations, e-books, Dawsonera

The Wiley Blackwell companion to patristics / edited by Ken Parry – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017745

  • Christianity, Fathers of the Church, patristics, e-books, Dawsonera

PHILOSOPHY

The Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian aesthetics and the philosophy of art / edited by Arindam Chakrabarti – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10014176

  • India, art (India), philosophy of art, aesthetics

God is no thing: coherent Christianity / Rupert Shortt – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10014957

  • Christianity, God (Christianity), philosophy of religion, philosophical theology

Mind, language, and metaphilosophy: early philosophical papers / Richard Rorty ; edited by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10007725

  • Philosophy (20th century), Richard Rorty (1931-2007)

Mindfulness / Martin Heidegger; translated by Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016110

  • Mindfulness (psychology), consciousness, ontology

Idealism and Christian theology / edited by Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton; general editor, James S. Spiegel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016113

  • Christianity, idealism, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology

Idealism and Christian philosophy / edited by Steven B. Cowan and James S. Spiegel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016114

  • Christianity, philosophy of religion, idealism

 Wittgenstein’s poker: the story of a ten-minute argument between two great philosophers / David Edmonds and John Eidinow. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016631

  • Philosophy (modern), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Karl Popper (1902-1994)

E-books

Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon / James A. Diamond, University of Waterloo, Ontario – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10015698

  • Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), Jewish philosophy, Jewish philosophers, e- books, Dawsonera

 

 

 

 

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