Religions and Philosophy: new book acquisitions for SOAS Library in October / November 2016
This is a selection of new titles (print and electronic) acquired by SOAS Library for the Religions and Philosophy collections in October and November 2016.
Please note that only SOAS staff and students will have access to e-books
RELIGIONS
Comparative and thematic
Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud: Christian and Sasanian contexts in late antiquity / Yishai Kiel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050508
Spirituality and human nature / Donald Evans – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045483
Key terms in material religion / edited by S. Brent Plate – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047570
Saving the people: how populists hijack religion / edited by Nadia Marzouki, Duncan McDonnell and Olivier Roy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047573
The reemergence of liberation theologies: models for the twenty-first century / edited by Thia Cooper – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050035
Sacred and the political: explorations on mimesis, violence and religion / edited by Elisabetta Brighi and Antonio Cerella – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047004
Buddhism
A less traveled path: Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra. Chapter 2 : critically edited with a study on its structure and significance for the development of Buddhist meditation / by Daniel M. Stuart – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047197
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
Bigger than Ben-Hur: the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046620
Mystical resistance: uncovering the Zohar’s conversations with Christianity / Ellen D. Haskell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050509
Coptic society, literature and religion from late Antiquity to modern times : Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th-22nd, 2012, and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th-19th, 2008 / Editors: Buzi P., Camplani A., Contardi F. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045720
The archaeology and history of the Church of the Redeemer and the Muristan in Jerusalem: a collection of essays from a workshop on the Church of the Redeemer and its vicinity held on 8th/9th September 2014 in Jerusalem / edited by Dieter Vieweger, Shimon Gibson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046329
To be cared for: the power of conversion and foreignness of belonging in an Indian slum / Nathaniel Roberts – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046645
The Armenian apocalyptic tradition: a comparative perspective: essays presented in honor of Professor Robert W. Thomson on the occasion of his eightieth birthday / edited by Kevork B. Bardakjian and Sergio La Porta. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047196
Daoism
Celestial masters: history and ritual in early Daoist communities / Terry F. Kleeman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046112
Islam
The study Quran : a new translation and commentary / Seyyed Hossein Nasr editor-in-chief ; Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E.B. Lumbard, general editors ; Mohammed Rustom, assistant editor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047165
Refractions of Islam in India: situating Sufism and yoga / Carl W. Ernst – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10049939
Beyond jihad: the pacifist tradition in West African Islam / Lamin O. Sanneh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050520
Salafism in Jordan: political Islam in a quietist community / Joas Wagemakers – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050679
Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, preaching, and politics / Alexander Thurston – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050612
The age of jihad: Islamic State and the great war for the Middle East / Patrick Cockburn- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050653
Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology in dialogue: the Logos of life and cultural interlacing / Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Nazif Muhtaroglu, Detlev Quintern, editors – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050127
Zoroastrianism
Des contrées avestiques à Mahabad, via Bisotun : études offertes en hommage à Pierre Lecoq / réunis par Céline Redard – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10043163
Zoroastrianism: a collection of articles from the Encyclopaedia Iranica / edited by Mahnaz Moazami – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046616
E-books: Comparative and thematic studies
Resurrection: a guide for the perplexed / Lidija Novakovic – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050114
Religion and development: conflict or cooperation? / Jeffrey Haynes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050944
A companion to the archaeology of religion in the ancient world / edited by Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052947
E-books: Regional or faith-specific
Beyond jihad: the pacifist tradition in West African Islam / Lamin O. Sanneh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050521
Creating a New Medina [electronic resource]: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India / Venkat Dhulipala – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10001530
Religions and constitutional transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean [electronic resource]: the pluralistic moment / edited by Alessandro Ferrari and James Toronto – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052662
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy in world perspective: a comparative hermeneutic of the major theories / David A. Dilworth – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045441
Levinas and Asian thought / edited by Leah Kalmanson, Frank Garrett & Sarah Mattice – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045440
Heretical essays in the philosophy of history / Jan Patočka ; translated by Erazim Kohák ; edited by James Dodd ; with Paul Ricoeur’s preface to the French edition – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045472
Existentialism and excess: the life and times of Jean-Paul Sartre / by Gary Cox – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047002
Sacred and the political: explorations on mimesis, violence and religion / edited by Elisabetta Brighi and Antonio Cerella – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047004
Animals in China: law and society / Deborah Cao, Griffith University, Australia – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047005
Benjamin: philosophy, aesthetics, history / edited by Gary Smith – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047160
Walter Benjamin and theology / Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons, editors – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10047162
Walter Benjamin and the antinomies of tradition / John McCole – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050129
Wittgenstein und der Ort des Denkens : Eine geistlose Philosophie des Geistes / Philipp Mock – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050121
The digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the network-centric condition / edited by Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050125
Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology in dialogue: the Logos of life and cultural interlacing / Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Nazif Muhtaroglu, Detlev Quintern, editors – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050127
The dream of enlightenment: the rise of modern philosophy / Anthony Gottlieb – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050652
The beginning of philosophy / Hans-Georg Gadamer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051705
The beginning of knowledge / Hans-Georg Gadamer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051722
Rethinking faith: Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein / edited by Antonio Cimino and Gert-Jan van der Heiden – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051891
E-books
Introduction to logic / Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen, Kenneth McMahon – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050959
Islamic philosophy and the ethics of belief / Anthony Robert Booth – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051554
Biopolitics and the philosophy of death / by Paolo Palladino – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051040
Fanon and the decolonization of philosophy / edited by Elizabeth A. Hoppe and Tracey Nicholls – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051938
Answers to King Khosroes of Persia / Priscian; translated by Pamela Huby and [5 others] ; introduction by Richard Sorabji – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052630