Religions: new acquisitions in SOAS Library for February & March 2018

By Mary Fisk|March 28, 2018|Ancient Near East, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions, Semitics & Judaica, South Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during February and March 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 Religious culture in late antique Arabia: selected studies on the late antique religious mind

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Religions – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 12, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries / edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli. Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East / Gerard Russell After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin K. Wilson (also available as an e-book) Buddhism Muktālatāvadānam of Ksẹmendra : Sanskrit text, Tibetan version with Hindi, English translations

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 10, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis. Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun. Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in

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Religions – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 31, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic studies Death and the Afterlife / edited by Jacob Neusner.  – Cannibal metaphysics: for a post-structural anthropology / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro   translated and edited by Peter Skafish – The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe / Chris Hann and the Civil Religion Group – The hip hop and religion reader / edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn

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Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit online

By Mary Fisk|January 30, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Religions|0 comments

This is a digital index to  Die Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PbmZ) currently being complied by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy with the aim of documenting the lives of individuals active in the Byzantine World. Part 1 (641-867 AD) is now completely indexed and searchable (some 11,500 articles) Although copyright restrictions mean the full-text cannot be viewed, you can see an opening extract and obtain the page references for the print volume. Part 2

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Religions – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 29, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism: social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.  Conversion and narrative: reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech. Vie et spiritualité des

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Religions – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books Mohajir militancy in Pakistan: violence and practices of transformation in the Karachi Conflict / by Nichola Khan. Available from Dawsonera Books A matter of belief: Christian conversion and healing in north-east India / Vibha Joshi  Islam, women, and violence in Kashmir: between India and Pakistan / Nyla Ali Khan. Islamic history: a very short introduction / Adam J. Silverstein Also available as an e-book  from Dawsonera New approaches to

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