2803, 2018

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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1506, 2015

History – May 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2015|History|0 comments

Comparative & thematic Sapiens: a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari. The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century / Jurgen Osterhammel. [also available as an e-book] Africa North Africa Dividing the Nile: Egypt’s ‘economic’ nationalists in the Sudan, 1918-1956 / David E. Mills China & Tibet Fateful ties: a history of America’s preoccupation with China / Gordon H. Chang. Writing, publishing, and reading

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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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3103, 2015

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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1510, 2014

Religions – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General and comparative The religious philosophy of Simone Weil: an introduction / Lissa McCullough. Religion and change in modern Britain / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto. Visualizing secularism and religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. Christianity Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria: a contextual study of ambivalent encounters / Akintunde E. Akinade.  Buddhism Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for

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2008, 2014

History – July 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 20, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative Visualizing knowledge and creating meaning in ancient writing systems / edited by Shai Gordin State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands / Frederick F. Anscombe Africa Contesting Caprivi: a history of colonial isolation and regional nationalism in Namibia Africa (4th edn) / edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, and Patrick O’Meara Dead was everything / Keith Smith The death penalty in Africa: foundations and

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1007, 2014

Religions – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 10, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & comparative Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar. Scriptural polemics: the Qur’an and other religions / Mun’im Sirry. Feeding the dead: ancestor worship in ancient India / Matthew R. Sayers. Street shrines of Kirtipur, Nepal: as long as the sun and moon endure / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy, Sukra Sagar Shreshta. Buddhism Women in early Indian Buddhism: comparative textual

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1205, 2014

Religions – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 12, 2014|Religions|0 comments

Comparative & thematic God’s Chosen People: Judah Halevi’s ‘Kuzari’ and the Shīʻī Imām doctrine / Ehud Krinis ; translated by Ann Brener and Tamar Liza Cohen. Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern times: a festschrift in honor of Mark R. Cohen / edited by Arnold Franklin, Roxani Margariti, Marina Rustow, Uriel Simonsohn. Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred: representation and change / by Kim Knott,

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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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0303, 2014

Religions – December 2013 and January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 3, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General & Comparative Bible and cinema: an introduction / Adele Reinhartz. Thin description: ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr. First light: a history of creation myths from Gilgamesh to the God particle / G.R. Evans.  Anatheism: returning to God after God / Richard Kearney. The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine /

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