3101, 2018

Religions: new acquisitions in SOAS Library during December 2017 & January 2018

By Mary Fisk|January 31, 2018|China and Inner Asia, History, Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica, Religions|

This is a selection of titles received by SOAS Library for the Study of Religions collections during December 2017 and January 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 In search of the lost Orient: an interview / Olivier Roy; as interviewed

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1505, 2015

Religions – April 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 15, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change / edited by Michael Blömer, Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja. From your gods to our gods: a history of religion in Indian, South African, and British courts / Marco Ventura The end of conceit: western rationality after postcolonialism / Patrick Chabal. [also available as a e-book] After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin

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1205, 2015

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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0209, 2014

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 2, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Divination in the Ancient Near East: a workshop on divination conducted during the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Wurzburg, 2008 / edited by Jeanette C. Fincke Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires / edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Støkl. Sacred ritual: a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock. Incantation and anti-witchcraft

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1504, 2014

History – March 2014.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 15, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative The look of the past: visual and material evidence in historical practice / Ludmilla Jordanova. Visualizing beauty: gender and ideology in modern East Asia / edited by Aida Yuen Wong. A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations [4th edition] / Conrad Schirokauer … [et al.]. Decolonisation: the British experience since 1945 [2nd edition] / Nicholas J. White. History on film/film on history [2nd edition] / Robert

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2803, 2014

Religions – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 28, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & comparative Periodization and historiography of Indian philosophy: [twelve lectures held at the fourteenth World Sanskrit Conference (Kyoto, September 1 – 5, 2009)] / ed. by Eli Franco. Handbook of contemporary Japanese religions / edited by Inken Prohl and John Nelson. Re-imagining South Asian religions: essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley.   Politics of worship in

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0810, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Tempel im Alten Orient : 7. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 11.-13. Oktober 2009, München Im Auftrag der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / herausgegeben von Kai Kaniuth, Anne Löhnert, Jared L. Miller, Adelheid Otto, Michael Roaf und Walther Sallaberger. Siedlungsgeschichte im mittleren Osttigrisgebiet : vom Neolithikum bis in die neuassyrische Zeit / Simone Mühl. The World of Berossos : Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on “The Ancient

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2808, 2013

Heaven on earth: open access book

By Mary Fisk|August 28, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Religions|0 comments

If you cannot wait for the library’s print copy of Heaven on earth: temples, ritual and cosmic symbolism in the ancient world (edited by Deena Ragavan) to arrive, you can download a PDF copy for free from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago’s) website. This book is Oriental Seminar 9 Click here to go to the Oriental Institute website  and then click the red arrow icon (next to “terms of

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1708, 2012

Art and Archaeology – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 17, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on a contested Buddhist site : Bodhgaya jataka / [edited by] David Geary, Matthew R. Sayers, Abhishek Singh Amar. Orchha and beyond : design at the court of Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela / Edward Leland Rothfarb. The Mucukunda murals in the Tyāgarājasvāmi temple, Tiruvārūr / V.K. Rajamani and David Shulman. The poetry of sculpture / Wu Weishan. Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities / edited by

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