Religions and Philosophy. New book acquisitions September 2016
This is a selection of books acquired for the Study of Religions and Philosophy collections in SOAS Library during September 2016
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RELIGIONS
Comparative and thematic
The mystic fable. Volume two, The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Michel de Certeau ; text established and presented by Luce Giard ; translated by Michael B. Smith – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045481
Holy lands: reviving pluralism in the Middle East / Nicolas Pelham – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045517
Motions of late antiquity: essays on religion, politics, and society in honour of Peter Brown / edited by Jamie Kreiner and Helmut Reimitz – . https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045698
Reconsidering religion, law and democracy: new challenges for society and research / edited by Anna-Sara Lind, Mia Lövheim, Ulf Zackariasson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045968
Rag and bone: a journey among the world’s holy dead / Peter Manseau. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046055
Taking rites seriously: law, politics, and the reasonableness of faith / Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046103
Race, religion, and resilience in the neoliberal age / Cedric C. Johnson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046198
Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity: the reception of Enochic literature / Annette Yoshiko Reed. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046439
Buddhism
The great transmission [videorecording] / produced by Barry Schieber ; directed by Pema Gellek – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045998
Christianity
Studies in Coptic culture: transmission and interaction / edited by Mariam Ayad – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045360
Isaiah Shembe’s hymns and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha / by Nkosinathi Sithole – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045583
Conflict and conversion: Catholicism in southeast Asia, 1500-1700 / Tara Alberts – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045850
Pushing boundaries: New Zealand protestants and overseas missions, 1827-1939 / Hugh Morrison – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045969
An Ethiopian reading of the Bible: biblical interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido church / by Keon-Sang An – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10036490
Islam
Reclaiming Islamic tradition: modern interpretations of the Classical heritage / Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad Khan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045770
Generation M: young Muslims changing the world / Shelina Janmohamed – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045993
The Qur’anic pagans and related matters: collected studies in three volumes / by Patricia Crone ; edited by Hanna Siurua – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046141
Constructing Islam on the Indus: the material history of the Suhrawardi Sufi order, 1200-1500 AD / Hasan Ali Khan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046773
DVDs
The great transmission [videorecording] / produced by Barry Schieber ; directed by Pema Gellek – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045998
E-books
White lies: race and uncertainty in the twilight of American religion / Christopher M. Driscoll – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046438
Fallen angels and the history of Judaism and Christianity: the reception of Enochic literature / Annette Yoshiko Reed. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046550
Exercices d’histoire des religions: comparaison, rites, mythes et émotions / Philippe Borgeaud ; textes réunis et édités par Daniel Barbu et Philippe Matthey – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046817
PHILOSOPHY
An introduction to comparative philosophy: a travel guide to philosophical space / Walter Benesch – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045384
From myth to reason? : studies in the development of Greek thought / edited by Richard Buxton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045393
Epistemologies of the South: justice against epistemicide / Boaventura De Sousa Santos – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045444
Asian texts, Asian contexts: encounters with Asian philosophies and religions / edited by David Jones and E.R. Klein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045443
Jan Patočka : philosophy and selected writings / Erazim Kohák – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045476
The mutual cultivation of self and things: a contemporary Chinese philosophy of the meaning of being / Yang Guorong ; foreword by Hans-Georg Moeller ; translated by Chad Austin Meyers – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045477
After appropriation: explorations in intercultural philosophy and religion / edited by Morny Joy – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045487
The concealed art of the soul: theories of self and practices of truth in Indian ethics and epistemology / Jonardon Ganeri – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045538
The self: naturalism, consciousness, and the first-person stance / Jonardon Ganeri – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045541
Self, no self? : perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions / edited by Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045547
The Bloomsbury research handbook of Chinese philosophy methodologies / edited by Sor-hoon Tan. – – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045722
The story of philosophy / Bryan Magee – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045932
A brief history of the soul / Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045544
E-books
Eclipse of God [electronic resource]: studies in the relation between religion and philosophy / Martin Buber ; with introduction by Robert M. Seltzer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046644
The Cambridge introduction to Walter Benjamin / David S. Ferris. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047161