Religions: new acquisitions in SOAS Library, June & July 2018
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during June and July 2018.
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Comparative and thematic
Jewish Christianity and the origins of Islam: papers presented at the colloquium held in Washington DC, October 29-31, 2015 (8th ASMEA conference) / edited by Francisco del Rio Sanchez. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268711
Other selves: autobiography & biography in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269715
Alternative sociologies of religion: through non-western eyes / James V. Spickard. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10285424
To live like a Moor: Christian perceptions of Muslim identity in medieval and early modern Spain / Olivia Remie Constable ; edited by Robin Vose ; foreword by David Nirenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286979
Buddhism
A Yogacara Buddhist theory of metaphor / Roy Tzohar – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10258687
Absorption: human nature and Buddhist liberation / Johannes Bronkhorst. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269692
Setting out on the great way: essays on early Mahāyāna Buddhism / edited by Paul M. Harrison. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268636
Gyōnen’s transmission of the Buddha Dharma in three countries / Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286989
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
Christianizing Egypt: syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity / David Frankfurter. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269338
God, hierarchy, and power: Orthodox theologies of authority from Byzantium / Ashley M. Purpura. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269506
Vom eisenzeitlichen Heiligtum zum christlichen Kloster : neue Forschungen auf dem Dülük Baba Tepesi / herausgegeben von Engelbert Winter ; Forschungsstelle Asia Minor im Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269507
Prophesy deliverance! : an Afro-American revolutionary Christianity / Cornel West. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286140
Asi-l-Hadath, Lebanon: history of a grotto = ʻĀṣī al-Ḥadath Lubnān : tārīkh al-mughārah / Fadi Baroudy, Abdo Badwi, Paul Khawaja and Joseph Moukarzel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264220
Knowledge and experience in the writings of St. Isaac of Nineveh / Valentin Vesa. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10268646
Christianity in the twentieth century: a world history / Brian Stanley. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286333
Hinduism
Seeking Mahādevī: constructing the identities of the Hindu Great Goddess / edited by Tracy Pintchman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10264234
Why I am a Hindu / Shashi Tharoor – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10269581
Islam
Patriotic ayatollahs: nationalism in post-Saddam Iraq / Caroleen Marji Sayej – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10287256
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Religion and politics in the United States [8th edn] / Kenneth D. Wald, University of Florida, Allison Calhoun-Brown, Georgia State University. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290593
The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion / Nathan Johnstone – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10287250
Interreligous Pedagogy: Reflections and Applications in Honor of Judith A. Berling / Jung Eun Sophia Park – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290958
Faith specific
African religions
Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa / Adeshina Afolayan [et al] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291582
Buddhism
Understanding young Buddhists: living out ethical journeys / by Sarah-Jane Page, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10285490
Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom / Rick Repetti – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291583
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
Christianity in North Africa and West Asia / Kenneth Ross & Mariz Tadros – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286191
Christianity in the twentieth century: a World history / Brian Stanley – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286332
To live like a Moor: Christian perceptions of Muslim identity in medieval and early modern Spain / Olivia Remie Constable; edited by Robin Vose ; foreword by David Nirenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10287100
Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa / Adeshina Afolayan [et al] – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291582
Chinese religions
The Confucian Political Imagination / Møllgaard – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10285429
Islam
Muslim rebels: Kharijites and the politics of extremism in Egypt / Jeffrey T. Kenney. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286708
To live like a Moor: Christian perceptions of Muslim identity in medieval and early modern Spain / Olivia Remie Constable; edited by Robin Vose ; foreword by David Nirenberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10287100
Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia / Julia Stephens. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10290821
Muḥammad at Mecca / translated and annotated by W. Montgomery Watt and M.V. McDonald. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291789
The victory of Islam / translated and annotated by Michael Fishbein – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291788
Jinnealogy: time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi / Anand Vivek Taneja. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291793
The Ismāʻı̄lı̄s : their history and doctrines [2nd edn] / Farhad Daftary. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291746
Sufism an account of the mystics of Islam / by A. J. Arberry. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291966
Islamic spirituality: foundations / edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291968
Islam outside the Arab world / edited by David Westerlund and Ingvar Svanberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10291965