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 & Philosophy at SOAS: a selection of new titles received April & May 2016

By Mary Fisk|May 25, 2016|Africa, Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, China and Inner Asia, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Philosophy, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

This is a selective list of titles received on themes relating to the study of religions and philosophy during April and May 2016. Click on the hyperlink to go through to the entry on the SOAS Library catalogue RELIGIONS Comparative and thematic Subverting global myths: theology and the public issues shaping our world / Vinoth Ramachandra – https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10013191 Sociology of religion, morals (philosophy), ethics (philosophy) Death, ritual and belief: the

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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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Religion – September 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 9, 2014|Religion|0 comments

Military chaplains and religious diversity / Kim Philip Hansen. Bouddhisme et lettrés dans la Chine médiévale / édité par Catherine Despeux. Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian. Eastern Christians and their written heritage. Manuscripts, scribes and context / J.P. Monferrer-Sala; H.G.B. Teule; S. Torrallas Tovar (eds.) Crisis in the church : a study of religion in America / by Andrew M. Greeley. Guide to Buddhist temples of

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China – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 12, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

A continuous revolution : making sense of Cultural Revolution culture / Barbara Mittler.  Approaches to teaching The story of the stone (Dream of the red chamber) / edited by Andrew Schonebaum and Tina Lu.  Contemporary China / Kerry Brown.  Beyond exemplar tales : women’s biography in Chinese history / edited by Joan Judge and Hu Ying. The search for modern China / Jonathan D. Spence. The Chinese and opium under

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