Study of Religions: new acquisitions, February & March 2017

By Mary Fisk|March 31, 2017|China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions|0 comments

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during February and March 2017. 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 Materiality and the study of religion: the stuff of the sacred / edited by

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Study of Religions: new acquisitions December 2016 – January 2017

By Mary Fisk|January 31, 2017|Religions|0 comments

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during December 2016 and January 2017. 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 Natural law: a Jewish, Christian, and Islamic trialogue / Anver M. Emon, Matthew

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Selected new acquisitions for the Study of Religions and Philosophy: June 2016

By Mary Fisk|July 4, 2016|Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions|0 comments

The following is a selective list of new titles received in SOAS Library for the Study of Religions and Philosophy during June 2016 Click on the hyperlink to go through to the SOAS Library catalogue entry Comparative and thematic God & apple pie: religious myths and visions of America / Christopher Buck ; introduction by J. Gordon Melton – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10017205  Buddhism The body incantatory: spells and the ritual imagination in

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Religions – November 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2015|Religions|

Comparative and thematic Die Religionen in vorgeschichtlicher Zeit / von Ina Wunn Discovering religious history in the modern age / Hans G. Kippenberg ; translated from German by Barbara Harshav Modern religious cults and movements / Gaius Glenn Atkins The origin and growth of religion: facts and theories / by W. Schmidt ; translated from the original German by H.J. Rose Les religions de la préhistoire : paléolithique / André

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History – June and July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic The material of world history / edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg The great sea: a human history of the Mediterranean [updated edition] / David Abulafia. Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous. The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – August 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 30, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Interpreting Avicenna : critical essays / edited by Peter Adamson. In the age of Averroes : Arabic philosophy in the sixth/twelfth century / edited by Peter Adamson. Islamic thought in the dialogue of cultures : a historical and bibliographical survey / By Hans Daiber. Tales of God’s friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / edited by John Renard. Striving in the path of God : Jihād and Martyrdom in

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 22, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Middle East Living in historic Cairo : past and present in an Islamic city / edited by Farhad Daftary, Elizabeth Fernea and Azim Nanji. The social dimension of Christian missions in the Middle East : historical studies of the 19th and 20th centuries / edited by Norbert Friedrich, Uwe Kaminsky, Roland Löffler. Visual productions of knowledge : toward a different Middle East / edited by Hanan Sabea, Mark R. Westmoreland

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