New acquisitions for SOAS Library: Religions & Philosophy (November 2018 – January 2019)

By Mary Fisk|January 29, 2019|China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religion, South Asia|

RELIGIONS

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions 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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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