New acquisitions for SOAS Library: Religions & Philosophy (November 2018 – January 2019)
RELIGIONS
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections between November 2018 and January 2019
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Please note that some e-book content (notably eBook Central and Dawsonera) is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in
Comparative and thematic
New themes, new styles in the eastern Mediterranean: Christian, Jewish, and Islamic encounters, 5th-8th centuries / edited by Hagit Amirav and Francesco Celia. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10295063
Tomb — Memory — Space: Concepts of Representation in Premodern Christian and Islamic Art / – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302878
Religious imaginations and global transitions: how narratives of faith are shaping today’s world / edited by James Walters – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304051
Why religion? : a personal story / Elaine Pagels. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304134
Death as a speculative theme in religious, scientific, and social thought / Kastenbaum – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304161
Full catastrophe living: how to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation / by Jon Kabat-Zinn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304172
Wherever you go, there you are: mindfulness meditation for everyday life / Jon Kabat-Zinn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304173
The path of modern yoga: the history of an embodied spiritual practice / Elliott Goldberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308440
Buddhism
The Kanaganahalli Stūpa : an analysis of the 60 massive slabs covering the dome / Monika Zin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302501
Brides of the Buddha: nuns’ stories from the Avadānaśataka / Karen Muldoon-Hules. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301023
Daughters of emptiness: poems of Chinese Buddhist nuns / Beata Grant. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303499
Chinese religions
Atlas of religion in China: social and geographical contexts / by Fenggang Yang ; with assistance from J.E.E. Pettit. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292328
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The second gift of the Nile: monks and monasteries in late antique Egypt / Ewa Wipszycka; translated by Damian Jasiński. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300236
Traditional churches, born again Christianity, and Pentecostalism: religious mobility and religious repertoires in urban Kenya / Yonatan N. Gez. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300252
Pentecostal and charismatic spiritualities and civic engagement in Zambia / Naar M’fundisi-Holloway. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300618
Christianity and the modern woman in East Asia / edited by Garrett L. Washington. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302989
Missionary life in Persia: being glimpses at a quarter of a century of labors among the Nestorian Christians / by Justin Perkins ; Introduction by John Pierre Ameer. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10292630
Faithful encounters: authorities and American missionaries in the Ottoman Empire / Emrah Sahin – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301337
The Commentary of Gabriel of Qatar on the East Syriac Morning Service on Ordinary Days: text, translation, and discussion / Alex C. J. Neroth van Vogelpoel. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300237
The Church as safe haven: Christian governance in China / edited by Lars Peter Laamann, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10301522
“To give publicity to our thoughts”: Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit. Journals of Asian and African Christians around 1900 and the making of a transregional indigenous-Christian public sphere / edited by Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, Frieder Ludwig and Ciprian Burlacioiu – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302881
Islam
The grey falcon: the life and teaching of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī / by Hamza Malik. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302522
Medieval Latin lives of Muhammad / edited and translated by Julian Yolles and Jessica Weiss. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303236
The ISIS apocalypse: the history, strategy, and doomsday vision of the Islamic State / William McCants. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304105
God in the Qur’an / Jack Miles. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308272
Jainism
The gift of knowledge: patterns of patronage in Jainism: essays in honour of Hampa Nagarajaiah’s promotion of Jain studies / edited by Christine Chojnacki et al. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294092
Jainism and other essays / Kamala Hampana – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10294104
Reading history with the Tamil Jainas: a study on identity, memory and marginalisation / R. Umamaheshwari. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302853
E-books
Comparative and thematic
Jezebel unhinged: loosing the black female body in religion and culture / Tamura Lomax – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302744
Queering religion, religious queers / edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300517
& https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300479
On religion / John D. Caputo – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302732
Constitution writing, religion and democracy / edited by Asli U. Bali – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303999
Hosting the stranger: between religions / edited by Richard Kearney and James Taylor. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308343
Mimetic theory and world religions / edited by Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308715
Interreligious comparisons in religious studies and theology: comparison revisited / edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309323
The assimilation of yogic religions through pop culture / edited by Paul G. Hackett; foreword by David Gordon White. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309258
Secular bodies, affects, and emotions: European configurations / edited by Monique Scheer, Nadia Fadil, and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309277
Faith specific
Buddhism
Daughters of emptiness: poems of Chinese Buddhist nuns / Beata Grant. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303512
What is Buddhist enlightenment? / Dale S. Wright. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304363
Christianity (Western and Eastern)
The Holy See and the emergence of the modern Middle East: Benedict XV’s diplomacy in Greater Syria (1914-1922) / Agnes de Dreuzy. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302931
Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia / l. Washington Garrett – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304029
What did Ezekiel see? : Christian exegesis of Ezekiel’s vision of the chariot from Irenaeus to Gregory the Great / by Angela Russell Christman. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10067782
On God, the soul, Evil and the rise of Christianity. / John Peter Kenney. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308988
Hinduism
Revival: Suttee (1928): A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry Into the Hindu Rite of Widow-Burning / Edward John Thompson. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308889
Islam
Anthropomorphism in Islam: the challenge of traditionalism (700-1350) / Livnat Holtzman – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303572
Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s). -/ Amal Ghazal – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303996
Recalling the Caliphate: decolonisation and world order / S. Sayyid. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303988
Landscapes of the Jihad: militancy, morality, modernity / Faisal Devji. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304171
Political Islam: context versus ideology / edited by Khaled Hroub – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304103
Jainism
Jainism and environmental philosophy: karma and the web of life / Aidan Rankin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303440
Jain approaches to plurality: identity as dialogue / by Melanie Barbato. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309241
Other faiths
Rethinking relations and animism: personhood and materiality / edited by Miguel Astor-Aguilera and Graham Harvey. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304322
PHILOSOPHY
This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Philosophy collections between November 2018 and January 2019
Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue
Please note that some e-book content (notably eBook Central and Dawsonera) is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in
Comparative and thematic
On social structure and science / Robert K. Merton; edited and with an introduction by Piotr Sztompka. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10300866
Regional and faith-based
New visions of the Zhuangzi / edited by Livia Kohn. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10304214
E-Books
Comparative & thematic
Thinking antagonism: political ontology after Laclau / Oliver Marchart. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302702
Foucault and Derrida: the other side of reason / Roy Boyne. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302975
Aliens and alienists: ethnic minorities and psychiatry / Roland Littlewood and Maurice Lipsedge. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302988
The man of reason: male and female in Western philosophy / Genevieve Lloyd. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303077
Not all dead white men: classics and misogyny in the digital age / Donna Zuckerberg. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303069
The Palgrave handbook of practical animal ethics / Andrew Linzey [and five others], editors. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303538
After the revolution? : authority in a good society / Robert A. Dahl. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303790
On God, the soul, Evil and the rise of Christianity. / John Peter Kenney. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308988
Regional & faith-based
The Arabic version of Aristotle’s Historia animalium, Book I-X of the Kitāb al-hayawān : a critical edition with introduction and selected glossary / by Lourus S. Filius ; in collaboration with Johannes den Heijer, John N. Mattock. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10302771
Jainism and environmental philosophy: karma and the web of life / Aidan Rankin. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10303440
Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Perspectives and Reverberations / Rick Benitez & Hyun Jin Kim – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10308794