Religions and Philosophy: new acquisitions in SOAS Library for June & July 2017
RELIGIONS
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during June and July 2017.
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Comparative and thematic
L’Archeologia del sacro e l’archeologia del culto: Sabratha, Ebla, Ardea, Lanuvio (Roma, 8-11 ottobre 2013). Sabratha / a cura di Nicola Bonacasa – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10216170
Mysticism: experience, response, and empowerment / Jess Byron Hollenback. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10045484
Religious networks in Asia and beyond / editor, Rafael Reyes-Ruiz ; guest editor, Peter van der Veer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220679
Building on the ruins of the temple: apologetics and polemics in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism / Adam Gregerman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215585
Jewish-Muslim relations in past and present: a kaleidoscopic view / edited by Josef Meri. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220893
Routledge companion to death and dying / edited by Christopher M. Moreman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222019
Guyanese Komfa: the ritual art of trance / Michelle Yaa Asantewa. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222434
Religious minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim law (5th-15th centuries) / edited by Nora Berend, Youna Hameau-Masset, Capucine Nemo-Pekelman and John Tolan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222593
African traditional religions
Salvation at the crossroad: Christianity and Ewe indigenous religion in West Africa / Confidence Worlanyo Bansah. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220586
Les religions traditionnelles des Bamiléké / Étienne Saha Tchinda ; préface d’Albert Pascal Temgoua. – – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220815
Buddhism
Reading emptiness: Buddhism and literature / Jeff Humphries – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10215543
La formation du Mahavastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva / Vincent Tournier. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220843
Giuseppe De Lorenzo e il buddhismo / Antonio Salvati. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222168
Mahāsūtras : great discourses of the Buddha. Vol. 2, Parts 1 & 2. General introduction / Individual introductions. Critical editions of the Tibetan Mahāsūtras with Pāli and Sanskrit counterparts as available / edited by Peter Skilling. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222322
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
Christian art under Muslim rule proceedings of a workshop held in Istanbul on May 11/12, 2012 / edited by Maximilian Hartmuth ; with the assistance of Ayse Kilsiz and Alyson Wharton. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10213285
Death and the afterlife in Byzantium : the fate of the soul in theology, liturgy, and art / Vasileios Marinis, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, The Institute of Sacred Music, Divinity School, Yale University. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220244
The story of the encounter between monk Bahira and Muhammad, as it is recorded in the Syriac manuscript of Mardin 259/2: the monk encounters the Prophet / Abjar Bahkou – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10218936
Let them not return: Sayfo: the genocide of the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire / edited by David Gaunt, Naures Atto, and Soner Onder Barthoma. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219486
Eastern Christianity and politics in the twenty-first century / Lucian N. Leustean – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220152
Salvation at the crossroad: Christianity and Ewe indigenous religion in West Africa / Confidence Worlanyo Bansah. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220586
The scriptural universe of ancient Christianity / Guy G. Stroumsa. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220895
Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Kenneth R. Ross, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu [and] Todd M. Johnson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221772
The Red Monastery church: beauty and asceticism in Upper Egypt / edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222391
Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries / edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Derek Krueger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230093
Islam
Islamic civilization in thirty lives: the first 1,000 years / Chase F. Robinson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10053813
Zar: spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt / Hager El Hadidi. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220510
Islam and its past. Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur’an. Michael Cook; Carol Bakhos. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220458
The Sanaa Palimpsest: the transmission of the Qur’an in the first centuries H / Asma Hilali. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10052240
Islam and secularism in post-colonial thought: a cartography of Asadian genealogies / Hadi Enaya- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219072
A place between two places: the Quranic barzakh / by George Archer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10219828
Pilgrimage in Islam: traditional and modern practices / Sophia Rose Arjana – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221974
Jihadi culture: the art and social practices of militant Islamists / [edited by] Thomas Hegghammer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221992
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and modern paganism / Kathryn Rountree, editor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221701
The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying / Christopher M. Moreman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221766
Death, mourning, and burial: a cross-cultural reader [2nd edn.] / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221912
Becoming atheist: humanism and the secular West / Callum G. Brown. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230293
Religion and the global city / edited by David Garbin and Anna Strhan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230158
Faith specific
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The labor of faith: gender and power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism / Judith Casselberry. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221911
Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries / edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Derek Krueger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222475
Performing Orthodox ritual in Byzantium / Andrew Walker White. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222472
Education and religion in late antique Christianity: reflections, social contexts and genres / edited by Peter Gemeinhardt, Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van Nuffelen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230375
Walking where Jesus walked: American Christians and Holy Land pilgrimage / Hillary Kaell – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10236210
Buddhism
Strange tales of an Oriental idol: an anthology of early European portrayals of the Buddha / edited by Donal S. Lopez Jr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230524
PHILOSOPHY
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Philosophy collections during June and July 2017.
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Comparative and thematic
The Routledge companion to feminist philosophy / edited by Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, and Alison Stone. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220154
The Bloomsbury companion to philosophy of mind / edited by James Garvey – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220714
Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery: the role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222390
War: an enquiry / A.C. Grayling. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222416
Regional
The problem of evil : Ibn Sina’s theodicy / by Shams Inati. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222015
E-books
Comparative & thematic
An introduction to ethics / John Deigh – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10220713
Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy / Cécile Laborde & Aurélia Bardon – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10221910
Pacifism: a philosophy of nonviolence / by Robert L. Holmes. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222474
Rethinking faith: Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein / edited by Antonio Cimino and Gert-Jan van der Heiden. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214047
The Routledge handbook of the Stoic tradition / edited by John Sellars – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222584
God, value, and nature / Fiona Ellis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10222568
Regional
Judaism, science, and moral responsibility / edited by Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10230371