Selected new acquisitions for the Study of Religions and Philosophy: June 2016

By Mary Fisk|July 4, 2016|Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions|0 comments

The following is a selective list of new titles received in SOAS Library for the Study of Religions and Philosophy during June 2016

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Comparative and thematic

God & apple pie: religious myths and visions of America / Christopher Buck ; introduction by J. Gordon Melton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017205

 Buddhism

The body incantatory: spells and the ritual imagination in medieval Chinese Buddhism / Paul Copp – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017867

 Altered states: Buddhism and psychedelic spirituality in America / Douglas Osto – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017822

Christianity

Setting off from Macau: essays on Jesuit history during the Ming and Qing dynasties / by Tang Kaijian –  https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017007

Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the six days of creation. Second day / edited and translated by Edward G. Mathews Jr.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013171

Jacob of Sarug’s homily on the Lord’s prayer / edited and translated by Morgan Reed – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013172

Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the solitaries / edited and translated by Colby Scott ; edited and translated by Morgan Reed. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013174

The holy workshop of virtue : the life of John the Little / by Zacharias of Sakhā ; translated from Bohairic Coptic, Sahidic Coptic, and Syriac with newly edited Coptic texts ; edited by Maged S.A. Mikhail and Tim Vivian ; translations by Rowan A. Greer, Maged S.A. Mikhail, and Tim Vivian ; introduction by Tim Vivian and Maged S.A. Mikhail.  – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016922

Selected discourses of Shenoute the Great : community, theology, and social conflict in late Antique Egypt / translated with introductions by David Brakke and Andrew Crislip – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017753

 Christianity in Asia : sacred art and visual splendour / edited by Alan Chong ; Pedro Moura Carvalho, Clement Onn, István Perczel, Ken Parry, Lauren Arnold, Maria da Conceição Borges de Sousa, William R. Sargent – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10036370

 Ecclesiastic landscape of North Ethiopia: proceedings of the international workshop “Ecclesiastic Landscape of North Ethiopia: History, Change, and Cultural Heritage,” Hamburg, July 15-16, 2011 / edited by Denis Nosnitsin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017721

Islam

The Rohingyas : inside Myanmar’s hidden genocide / Azeem Ibrahim – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016552

Salafi-jihadism : the history of an idea / Shiraz Maher – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10014941

Essays in Islamic philology, history, and philosophy: a festschrift in celebration and honor of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani’s 90th birthday / edited by Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh, William Granara – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017426

Qurʼanic studies today / edited by Angelika Neuwirth and Michael A. Sells – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017435

 Hinduism

One lifetime, many lives: the experience of modern Hindu hagiography / by Robin Rinehart – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016818

 

E-books

Religion, identity and human security / Giorgio Shani – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017816

 Muslims of Latin Christendom, ca. 1050-1614 / Brian Catlos, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of California, Santa Cruz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10032754

 PHILOSOPHY

On location: Aristotle’s concept of place / Benjamin Morison – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10016986

The Bloomsbury research handbook of Chinese philosophy and gender / edited by Ann A. Pang White – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10018587