2910, 2018

New acquisitions in SOAS Library: Religions (August – October 2018)

By Mary Fisk|October 29, 2018|Africa, Ancient Near East Semitics & Judaica, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, South Asia|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections between August and October  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 Seeking out the land: land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan

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1212, 2012

Traditional Parsi death rituals in modern Mumbai

By Mary Fisk|December 12, 2012|Religions, South Asia|0 comments

Image from Wikimedia: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Indian_Vulture-_Gyps_indicus.jpg) Link to this New York Times article on how Parsi leaders in Mumbai are building aviaries to re-establish the native vultures which traditionally consumed the corpses of the of the Parsi dead, laid out in specially constructed Towers of Silence, so that the elements of air, earth, fire and water would not be polluted by death. The scheme will also bring the birds back from the brink of extinction. Image

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