2309, 2015

ArtReview Live presents IN THE NAME OF GOD (1992), a film by Anand Patwardhan

By Farzana Whitfield|September 23, 2015|Films and Sound Recordings, South Asia|0 comments

To celebrate the launch of the Autumn issue of ArtReview Asia, there will be a screening of IN THE NAME OF GOD (1992), a feature film by Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan. Gaining Patwardhan international acclaim as well as controversy, the film traces the progressive rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India in the 1980s and 1990s, and the resulting wave of religious violence that spread throughout the country (read more here). This

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0711, 2012

Religions – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 7, 2012|Religions|0 comments

Shoshannat Yaaqov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of Yaakov Elman / edited by Shai Secunda and Steven Fine The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world / Linda G. Jones Hattha-Yoga : its context, theory, and practice / Mikel Burley ; with a foreword by David Frawley (isbn 9788120817067) Animals in the Qur’an / Sarra Tlili. Animism in rainforest and tundra: personhood, animals, plants and things in

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1406, 2012

Religions – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 14, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books The Routledge companion to religion and film / edited by John Lyden. [Dawsonera] [Also available in print] Theology and social theory: beyond secular reason / John Milbank. [Dawsonera] Spiritual marketplace: baby boomers and the remaking of American religion / Wade Clark Roof. [Dawsonera] After God / Mark C. Taylor. [Dawsonera] Books The cult of emptiness : the Western discovery of Buddhist thought and the invention of Oriental philosophy / Urs App. Catalogue

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0706, 2012

Korea – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 7, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Media and democratic transition in South Korea / Ki-Sung Kwak. The languages of Japan and Korea / edited by Nicolas Tranter. 예쁜여자만들기 : 미인강박의문화사, 한국에서미인은어떻게만들어졌는가 / 이영아지음 한국민주주의의제도화 / 정상호지음 한국의보수와수구 : 이념의역사 / 이나미 한국 민족주의 와 변혁적 이념 체계 / 금 인숙, 문 상석, 전 상숙 통일한국브랜딩 : 마케팅의눈으로본한반도브랜딩전략서 / 전병길, 박일수 근현대 한일 관계 의 제 문제 / 동북아 역사 재단 편 청년층노동시장진입및정착방안연구 / 남재량 그들이아닌우리를위한복지 :

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