Religions: new acquisitions in SOAS Library for February & March 2018
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during February and March 2018.
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Comparative and thematic
Religious culture in late antique Arabia: selected studies on the late antique religious mind / edited by Kirill Dmitriev, Isabel Toral-Niehoff. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244021
Imagining the divine: art and the rise of world religions / Jaś Elsner, Stefanie Lenk, et al. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255296
The body in religion: cross-cultural perspectives / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258182
For all life: toward a universal declaration of a global ethic: an interreligious dialogue / edited by Leonard Swidler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255587
The presence of the word: some prolegomena for cultural and religious history / Walter J. Ong. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254782
Buddhism
A Buddhist response to the climate emergency / edited by John Stanley, David R. Loy, and Gyurme Dorje – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10238703
Sadhamāramrtama : Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Hartmann zum 65. geburstag / edited by Oliver von Criegern, Gudrun Melzer and Johannes Schneider. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264164
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The dialogue between the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches / edited by Christine Chaillot, foreword by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10242041
Ethiopia : the living churches of an ancient kingdom / Mary Anne Fitzgerald with Philip Marsden ; photography, Nigel Pavitt, Frederic Courbet, Justus Mulinge, Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher ; edited by Carolyn Ludwig and Morris Jackson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253949
Le monde syriaque : sur les routes d’un christianisme ignoré / Françoise Briquel Chatonnet et Muriel Debié. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10253951
Persian Christians at the Chinese court: the Xi’an Stele and the Church of the East, 410-845 / Todd Godwin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244007
From Gnostics to monastics: studies in Coptic and early Christianity in honor of Bentley Layton / edited by D. Brakke, S.J. Davis & S. Emmel – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255297
Shanghai faithful: betrayal and forgiveness in a Chinese Christian family / Jennifer Lin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255585
Chrétiens d’Orient : 2000 ans d’histoire / ouvrage publié sous la direction de Raphaëlle Ziadé. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257429
What did Jesus look like? / Joan E. Taylor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257543
The triumph of Christianity: how a forbidden religion swept the world / Bart D. Ehrman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257664
Creed & grievance: Muslim-Christian relations & conflict resolution in northern Nigeria / edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha & David Ehrhardt.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258346
Islam
Islamophobia: making Muslims the enemy / Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10250988
Radical skin, moderate masks: de-radicalising the Muslim and racism in post-racial societies / Yassir Morsi – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257115
Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of Islam / edited by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255589
Muslim identity politics: Islam, activism and equality in Britain / Khadijah Elshayyal – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257662
From belonging to belief: modern secularisms and the construction of religion in Kyrgyzstan / Julie McBrien. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257833
Creed & grievance: Muslim-Christian relations & conflict resolution in northern Nigeria / edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha & David Ehrhardt.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258346
Zoroastrianism
The ritual landscape at Persepolis. : glyptic imagery from the Persepolis fortification and Treasury archives / by Mark B. Garrison – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244440
Other faiths
False dawn: the United Religions Initiative, globalism, and the quest for a one-world religion / Lee Penn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257233
E-books
Comparative and thematic
The religion and theology student writer’s manual and reader’s guide / Joel Hopko – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257116
The challenge of pluralism: church and state in six democracies / J. Christopher Soper, Kevin R. den Dulk, and Stephen V. Monsma – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257174
Sacred fury: understanding religious violence [3rd edn] / Charles Selengut.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257173
Four paths to Jerusalem: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular pilgrimages, 1000 BCE to 2001 CE / by Hunt Janin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257204
The Blackwell companion to religious ethics / edited by William Schweiker. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257171
Comparative religious ethics: everyday decisions for our everyday lives / by Christine E. Gudorf. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257163
Interpreting scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: overlapping inquiries / edited by Mordechai Z. Cohen and Adele Berlin ; with the assistance of Meir M. Bar-Asher, Rita Copeland, and Jon Whitman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258069
The age of secularization / Augusto Del Noce ; edited and translated by Carlo Lancellotti. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258050
Powers of distinction: on religion and modernity / Nancy Levene. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258828
Faith specific
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The Cambridge companion to the Summa theologiae / edited by Philip McCosker, Denys Turner. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10254959
Empire and the meaning of religion in Northeast Asia: Manchuria 1900-1945 / Thomas David DuBois. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258342
Secular nationalism and citizenship in Muslim countries: Arab Christians in the Levant / Kail C.Ellis, editor. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264277
Daoism
Dream trippers: global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258255
Hinduism
Being Hindu: understanding a peaceful path in a violent world / Hindol Sengupta. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255564
Valmiki’s Uttara kanda: the Book of answers / Translated with Commentary by Arshia Sattar. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10255565
Renowned goddess of desire: women, sex, and speech in Tantra / Loriliai Biernacki. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258932
Islam
Faith and Fashion in Turkey: Consumption, Politics and Islamic Identities / Nazli Alimen – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258943