0708, 2015

Religions – June and July 2015

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

Comparative and thematic Shamanism, discourse, modernity / by Thomas Karl Alberts Religion, emergence, and the origins of meaning: beyond Durkheim and Rappaport / by Paul Cassell Dialogue in early South Asian religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions / edited by Brian Black and Laurie Patton. Mindscaping the landscape of Tibet: place, memorability, ecoaesthetics / Dan Smyer Yü. Buddhism Buddhist attitudes to other religions / edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel. Living karma:

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3005, 2013

Religions – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|Religions|0 comments

E-books Encyclopedia of Hinduism / edited by Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael York. Books The logic of law-making in Islam: women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi. Receptacle of the sacred: illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim. Not quite shamans: spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen. Inquisition in early Islam: the competition for political

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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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0309, 2012

China and Inner Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Database updates China Academic Journals (CAJ) 中国期刊全文数据库 now includes masters theses and doctoral dissertations The popular Chinese language database now includes access to masters theses (1999-2012) and doctoral dissertations (2000-2012). These can be searched or browsed individually or cross searched with all of our other CAJ packages. A small percentage of the articles are images which can be converted to text-based articles by using the OCR button. http://oversea.cnki.net/ [On-campus] http://bit.ly/CAJTheses

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