Religions – December 2014 and January 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 20, 2015|Religions|0 comments

General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary

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Religions – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2013|Religions|0 comments

e-books Sufism and society: arrangements of the mystical in the Muslim world, 1200-1800 / edited by John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander. [e-book from Dawsonera] Mahāyāna Buddhism: the doctrinal foundations / Paul Williams. [e-book from ebrary] Yoga traveling : bodily practice in transcultural perspective / Beatrix Hauser, editor. [e-book from Dawsonera] Zoroastrianism: an introduction / Jenny Rose. [e-book from ebrary] What the Buddha thought / Richard Gombrich. [e-book from

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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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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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Religions – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books Mohajir militancy in Pakistan: violence and practices of transformation in the Karachi Conflict / by Nichola Khan. Available from Dawsonera Books A matter of belief: Christian conversion and healing in north-east India / Vibha Joshi  Islam, women, and violence in Kashmir: between India and Pakistan / Nyla Ali Khan. Islamic history: a very short introduction / Adam J. Silverstein Also available as an e-book  from Dawsonera New approaches to

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Muslim and Christian understanding : theory and application of A Common Word / edited by Waleed El-Ansary and David K. Linnan. Animals in the Qur’an / Sarra Tlili. Deradicalising violent extremists : counter-radicalisation and deradicalisation programmes and their impact in muslim majority states / Hamed El-Said & Jane Harrigan. Innovation in Islam : traditions and contributions / ed. by Mehran Kamrava. The good Muslim : reflections on classical Islamic

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Religions – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books e-books are available to SOAS staff and students only, on or off-campus. Sinister yogis / David Gordon White – ebrary The origins of yoga and tantra : Indic religions to the thirteenth century / Geoffrey Samuel – Dawsonera Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton – Dawsonera Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian – Dawsonera Endings: a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl. – Dawsonera

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