Study of Religions: new acquisitions December 2016 – January 2017
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during December 2016 and January 2017.
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Comparative and thematic
Natural law: a Jewish, Christian, and Islamic trialogue / Anver M. Emon, Matthew Levering, and David Novak – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053125
The Bloomsbury reader in religion, sexuality, and gender / edited by Donald L. Boisvert and Carly Daniel-Hughes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053128
Faithonomics : religion and the free market / Torkel Brekke – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053234
War magic: religion, sorcery, and performance / edited by D.S. Farrer – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050674
The cultural politics of Obeah: religion, colonialism and modernity in the Caribbean world / Diana Paton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206581
Genghis Khan and the quest for God: how the world’s greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom / Jack Weatherford. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055172
The Oxford handbook of the study of religion / edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055222
Religion, philosophy and knowledge / Gregory W. Dawes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050499
Antonio Gramsci and the question of religion: ideology, ethics, and hegemony / Bruce Grelle – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050673
Speculation, heresy, and gnosis in contemporary philosophy of religion: the enigmatic absolute / [edited by] Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051892
Buddhism
Buddhist and Christian responses to the kowtow problem in China / Eric Reinders – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053687
Buddhism in America: global religion, local contexts / Scott A. Mitchell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053689
Architects of Buddhist leisure: socially disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s museums, monuments, and amusement parks / Justin Thomas McDaniel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053850
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
East Syriac Christianity in Mongol-Yuan China / Li Tang- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051126
Constantine and the captive Christians of Persia: martyrdom and religious identity in Late Antiquity / Kyle Smith – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051615
City of demons: violence, ritual, and Christian power in late antiquity / Dayna S. Kalleres – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052564
Buddhist and Christian responses to the kowtow problem in China / Eric Reinders – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053687
Year of the sword: the Assyrian Christian genocide, a history / Joseph Yacoub ; translated by James Ferguson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052195
Christianity as a world religion: an introduction [2nd edn] / Sebastian Kim and Kirsteen Kim – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052751
Les controverses religieuses en syriaque / Flavia Ruani – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053792
Islam
Faith-based violence and Deobandi militancy in Pakistan/ edited by Jawad Syed, Edwina Pio, Tahir Kamran [and] Abbas Zaidi – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10050605
Jihadism transformed: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s global battle of ideas / Simon Staffell, Akil N. Awan (editors) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052042
Islamic philosophy and the ethics of belief / Anthony Robert Booth – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10051555
The story of reason in Islam / Sari Nusseibeh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053367
Other religions
Pagan Christmas: winter feasts of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush / Augusto S. Cacpardo – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10046649
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Hagiography and religious truth: case studies in the Abrahamic and Dharmic traditions / edited by Rico G. Monge, Kerry P.C. San Chirico, and Rachel J. Smith – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053129
Religion and Orientalism in Asian studies / edited by Kiri Paramore –https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053131
Yoga, meditation, and mysticism: contemplative universals and meditative landmarks / Kenneth Rose – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053127
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains / Thomas W. Laqueur – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053233
New patterns for comparative religion: passages to an evolutionary perspective / William E. Paden – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053690
Religion, philosophy and knowledge [electronic resource]. / Gregory W. Dawes – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053693
Selling spirituality: the silent takeover of religion / Jeremy Carrette and Richard King – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053694
Shared stories, rival tellings: early encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims / Robert C. Gregg – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053794
Religions in the modern world: traditions and transformations [3rd edn] / edited by Linda Woodhead, Christopher Partridge, and Hiroko Kawanami – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055153
Religious dynamics under the impact of imperialism and colonialism: a sourcebook / edited by Bjorn Bentlage, Marion Eggert, Hans Martin Kramer, and Stefan Reichmuth – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055294
Young people’s attitudes to religious diversity / edited by Elisabeth Arweck – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10055305
Multireligious society: dealing with religious diversity in theory and practice. [electronic resource] / edited by Francisco Colom González and Gianni D’Amato – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206587
Apocalypses in context: apocalyptic currents through history / Kelly J. Murphy and Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler, editors- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206592
Faith-specific
Western Sufism: origins and development, 833-1968 / Mark Sedgwick – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10206793
Young British Muslims: between rhetoric and realities / edited by Sadek Hamid. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10135187
Japanese religions and globalization / Ugo Dessì – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10207084