Religions: new acquisitions in SOAS Library during December 2017 & January 2018
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during December 2017 and January 2018.
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Comparative and thematic
In search of the lost Orient: an interview / Olivier Roy; as interviewed by Jean-Louis Schlegel ; translated by C. Jon Delogu. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10238720
The Indian system of human marks: with editions, translations and annotations / by Kenneth G. Zysk. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241976
Faith and language practices in digital spaces / edited by Andrey Rosowsky https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242670
Perceiving the other in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / edited by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Wolfgang Grünstäudl, Matthew Thiessen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244349
The Jewish roots of christological monotheism : papers from the St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus / edited by Carey C. Newman, James R. Davila, Gladys S. Lewis. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243349
Tribes and global jihadism / edited by Virginie Collombier and Olivier Roy – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244388
Chinese religions
Songs for dead parents: corpse, text, and world in Southwest China / Erik Mueggler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250908
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
How Jesus became God: the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee / Bart D. Ehrman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242043
West Indian Pentecostals: living their faith in New York and London / Janice A. McLean-Farrell. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10236279
Norman Anderson and the Christian mission to modernise Islam / Todd M. Thompson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242985
The path of Christianity: the first thousand years / John Anthony McGuckin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243348
Uncovering ancient footprints: Armenian inscriptions and the pilgrimage routes of the Sinai / Michael E. Stone. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243434
Le Nouveau Testament en syriaque / Jean-Claude Haelewyck (editeur) – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243444
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America / edited by Paul C. Gutjahr – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243740
Hinduism
The vision of cosmic order in the Vedas / Jeanine Miller; foreword by Raimundo Panikkar.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10240902
Islam
The crucible of Islam / G. W. Bowersock. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242405
Imagining the Arabs: Arab identity and the rise of Islam / Peter Webb. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242659
Reading the Qur’an in the twenty-first century: a contextualist approach / Abdullah Saeed – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/827558
Contemporary Sufism: piety, politics and popular culture / Meena Sharify-Funk, William Rory Dickson and Merin Shobhana Xavier – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244470
Routledge handbook on early Islam / edited by Herbert Berg – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244594
The Quran: epic and apocalypse / Todd Lawson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244595
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Contemporary encounters in gender and religion: European perspectives / Lena Gemzöe, Marja-Liisa Keinanen, Avril Maddrell, editors. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243378
Invention of tradition and syncretism in contemporary religions: sacred creativity / Stefania Palmisano, Nicola Pannofino, editors. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243381
The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243733
Does religion cause violence? : multidisciplinary perspectives on violence and religion in the modern world / edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, Joel Hodge, and Carly Osborn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244469
Key words in religion, media and culture / edited by David Morgan. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244533
The lesser Jihads: bringing the Islamist extremist fight to the world / Phil Gurski. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250985
Religion and the politics of development: critical perspectives on Asia / edited by Philip Fountain, Robin Bush, R. Michael Feener. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254912
Faith specific
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The postcolonial Biblical reader / edited by R.S. Sugirtharajah. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243858
The Chaldean Catholic church: modern history, ecclesiology and church-state relations / Kristian Girling. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244019
Islam
Modern Islamic thought in a radical age: religious authority and internal criticism / Muhammad Qasim Zaman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243577
Gender hierarchy in the Qurʼān: medieval interpretations, modern responses / Karen Bauer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243447
Muhammad’s heirs: the rise of Muslim scholarly communities, 622-950 / Jonathan E. Brockopp. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10243448
Islam and Britain: Muslim mission in an age of empire / Ron Geaves – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244476
The holy city of Medina : sacred space in early Islamic Arabia / Harry Munt.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244618
The lesser Jihads : bringing the Islamist extremist fight to the world / Phil Gurski. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250985
European Muslims transforming the public sphere: religious participation in the arts, media and civil society / Asmaa Soliman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253948
Muslims, scholars, soldiers: the origin and elaboration of the Ibādī imāmate traditions / Adam R. Gaiser – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254732
Shurat legends, Ibadi identities: martyrdom, asceticism, and the making of an early Islamic community / Adam R. Gaiser – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254734