3107, 2018

History: new acquisitions in SOAS Library, June & July 2018

By Mary Fisk|July 31, 2018|Africa, China and Inner Asia, History, Korea, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the History collections during June and July  2018 Click on the hyperlink to go through to the item entry on the SOAS Library catalogue Please note that E-book content is accessible to SOAS staff and students only, with institutional log-in  Comparative and thematic Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire / Akala. – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10286134 Unfabling the East:

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3005, 2013

Religions – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|Religions|0 comments

E-books Encyclopedia of Hinduism / edited by Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael York. Books The logic of law-making in Islam: women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi. Receptacle of the sacred: illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim. Not quite shamans: spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen. Inquisition in early Islam: the competition for political

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0504, 2013

Religions – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 5, 2013|Religions|0 comments

e-books The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism: conversion, contestation, and memory / Matthew T. Kapstein [Available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Violence, desire, and the sacred: Girard’s mimetic theory across the disciplines / edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge [Available as an e-book from ebrary] Books Before religion: a history of a modern concept / Brent Nongbri The Caliphate’s soldiers: the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba’s long war / Wilson John ; foreword by

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0404, 2013

The Zen Gateway: new web resource

By Mary Fisk|April 4, 2013|China and Inner Asia, Japan, Religions|0 comments

Image of Mampukuji Temple (Kyoto, Japan) from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mampukuji.jpg The Zen Gateway is a new magazine-style online community for those interested in the study, research into and practice of Zen (Chan) Buddhism, including related disciplines such as calligraphy, well-being and martial arts. Create an account to become a contributing member and add your own content. The Scholars and Academics section contains articles, comment and book reviews and the community website also hosts

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1101, 2013

China and Inner Asia – November and December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 11, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

欧洲语言共同参考框架 : 学习, 教学, 评估 / 欧洲理事会文化合作教育委员会编 ; 主译: 刘骏, 傅荣 ; 翻译: 李婷妲 … [et al.]. 中國近代文學史 / 袁進 元朝与高丽关系研究 / 乌云高娃 从中亚到长安 /罗宏才 平等与启蒙 : 从明清之际到五四运动 / 魏义霞著 傳媒翻譯 / 鄭寶璇 中國改革年代的政治鬥爭 / 楊繼繩著 中文傳意 / 香港城市大學語文學部編著 後九七香港粤語流行歌詞研究 / [朱耀偉, 梁偉詩著] 影像中的「文革」農村 / 周浙平編撰 ; 高恒如攝影 台灣問題 : 政治解決策論 / 蕭元愷著 語言, 語音與技術 / 王士元, 彭剛 語言學與華語二語教學 / 吳偉平, 李兆麟編著 The comparative catalogue of Chinese Āgamas & Pāli

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