Religions: recent acquisitions for SOAS Library, April & May 2018
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during April and May 2018.
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Comparative and thematic
T&T Clark reader in Kierkegaard as theologian / edited by Lee C. Barrett. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258813
Apocalypticism and eschatology in late Antiquity: encounters in the Abrahamic religions, 6th-8th centuries / [edited by] H. Amirav, E. Grypeou and G.G. Stroumsa. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266890
Yoga rising: 30 empowering stories from yoga renegades for every body / Melanie C. Klein. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267540
Buddhism
The complete Nyingma tradition from sutra to tantra [Book 13] / Choying Tobden Dorje – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257310
The administration of Buddhism in China: a study and translation of Zanning and the topical compendium of the Buddhist clergy (Da Song seng shi lüe) / Albert Welter. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263956
The “Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven” and other precious scrolls from Western Gansu / translated and introduced by Wilt L. Idema. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267995
Chinese religions
Christianizing South China: mission, development, and identity in modern Chaoshan / edited by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267421
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The dawn of Christianity: people and gods in a time of magic and miracles / Robert Knapp – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10257542
Docetism in the early church: the quest for an elusive phenomenon / edited by Joseph Verheyden, Reimund Bieringer, Jens Schröter and Ines Jäger – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266896
British women missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861 / Sutapa Dutta. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267812
Christianizing Egypt: syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity / David Frankfurter – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269347
Bethlehem’s Syriac Christians: self, nation and church in dialogue and practice / Mark D. Calder. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267184
Hinduism
Hindu law: a new history of Dharmaśāstra / edited by Patrick Olivelle, Donald R. Davis – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258926
Masked ritual and performance in South India: dance, healing, and possession / David Schulman and Deborah Thiagarajan, editors. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264216
Keshab: Bengal’s forgotten prophet / John A. Stevens – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267827
Islam
Russia’s Muslim heartlands: Islam in the Putin era / Dominic Rubin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258918
The Wiley Blackwell history of Islam / edited by Armando Salvatore, Roberto Tottoli, Babak Rahimi, Fariduddin Attar, Naznin Patel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10244474
The work of Ibn Wadih al-Ya’qubi. An English translation. 3 vols / Matthew S. Gordon. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264142
Islam and globalisation: historical and contemporary perspectives: proceedings of the 25th Congress of L’Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants / edited by Agostino Cilardo. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266889
What is sharia? / Baudoin Dupret ; [translated by David Bond]. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267804
Bones of contention: Muslim shrines in Palestine / Andrew Petersen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267900
Formation of a religious landscape: Shi’i higher learning in Safavid Iran / by Maryam Moazzen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267920
Jainism
Jaina epistemology: Including the Jaina theory of error / by Jayandra Soni – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10263957
Other faiths
From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes / by Kevin T. Van Bladel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258779
Gnose et manichéisme : entre les oasis d’Egypte et la route de la soie : hommage à Jean-Daniel Dubois / sous la direction de Anna Van den Kerchove et Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266765
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Embodiment: phenomenological, religious and deconstructive views on living and dying / edited by Ramona Fotiade, David Jasper, Olivier Salazar-Ferrer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266963
Yoga, the body, and embodied social change: an intersectional feminist analysis / edited by Beth Berila, Melanie Klein, and Chelsea Jackson Roberts. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267541
Faith specific
Buddhism
Religion, space, and conflict in Sri Lanka: colonial and postcolonial contexts / Elizabeth J. Harris. https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267922
Meditation, Buddhism, and science / edited by David L. McMahan, Erik Braun. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269006
The refutation of the self in Indian Buddhism: Candrakīrti on the selflessness of persons / James Duerlinger. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269710
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
Spirit-filled world: religious dis/continuity in African Pentecostalism / Allan Heaton Anderson – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267281
The unbound God: slavery and the formation of early Christian thought / Chris L. de Wet. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267280
Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity: cognition and discipline / Paul C. Dilley – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267927
The early Christian world [2nd edn] / edited by Philip F. Esler.- https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267926
Christians in Asia before 1500 / Ian Gillman and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269654
Eastern Christianity in the modern Middle East / edited by Anthony O’Mahony and Emma Loosley. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269653
The Blackwell companion to Eastern Christianity / edited by Ken Parry. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269652
Chinese religions
Christianizing South China: Mission, Development, and Identity in Modern Chaoshan – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269030
Islam
Redefining the Muslim community: ethnicity, religion, and politics in the thought of Alfarabi / Alexander Orwin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266863
Routledge handbook of Islam in the West / edited by Roberto Tottoli ; contributors Tahir Abbas [and twenty four others] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267974
Islam and nationalism in India: South Indian context / M.T. Ansari. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267975
Islam, Sufism and everyday politics of belonging in South Asia / edited by Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10267976
Women and Men in the Qur’ān / by Asma Lamrabet. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269189
Western imaginings: the intellectual contest to define Wahhabism / Rohan Davis. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269557
Other faiths
Blessed: a history of the American prosperity gospel / Kate Bowler. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10266957