MU Libraries New Books: Religions. Mythology. Rationalism

About the new book list

5/22/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Confucianism as religion : controversies and consequences / by Yong Chen. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: BL1853 .C44 2013

Knowledge and religion in early modern Europe : studies in honor of Michael Heyd / edited by Asaph Ben-Tov, Yaacov Deutsch, Tamar Herzig. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: BL51 .K6145 2013

Pragmatic pluralism and the problem of God / Sami Pihlström. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: BL51 .P5533 2013

Religion and revelation after Auschwitz / Balázs M. Mezei. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: BL51 .M527 2013

Renewing the senses : a study of the philosophy and theology of the spiritual life / Mark R. Wynn. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: BL624 .W96 2013

God in proof : the story of a search, from the ancients to the Internet / Nathan Schneider. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: BL473 .S36 2013

Text in play : experiments in reading scripture / Mike Higton and Rachel Muers. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: BL71 .H54 2012

Pluralism : the future of religion / Kenneth Rose. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: BL85 .R665 2013

Religion, science, and democracy : a disputational friendship / Lisa L. Stenmark. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: BL240.3 .S743 2013

Japanese religions and globalization / Ugo Dessì. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: BL2202.3 .D47 2013

Penser l'icône en Inde ancienne / Gérard Colas. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: BL2015.I4 C65 2012

Political religion beyond totalitarianism : the sacralization of politics in the age of democracy / edited by Joost Augusteijn, Lecturer in European History, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Patrick Dassen, Lecturer in European History, Leiden Universi (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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About the Author

JOOST AUGUSTEIJN lectures at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He has previously held posts at Trinity College, Dublin and Queens University Belfast. He is author of From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare. The Experience of rdinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence 1916-1921 (Dublin 1996), and Patrick Pearse. The Making of a Revolutionary (Houndmills 2010) as well as editor of several volumes. PATRICK DASSEN lectures at Leiden University, he specializes in German History, 1870-1945. He has previously held posts at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Groningen and the Germany Institute Amsterdam. He is the author of a monograph on Max Weber (De onttovering van de wereld. Max Weber en het probleem van de moderniteit in Duitsland, 1890-1920 (1999)) and (co-)editor of several volumes, such as The Many Faces of Evolution in Europe, c. 1860-1914 (2005). MAARTJE JANSE is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of History of Leiden University. She specializes in 19th century European and American political culture. Her publications include De Afschaffers. Publieke opinie, organisatie en politiek in Nederland, 1840-1880. Her current research focuses on the impact early 19th-century mass organizations against, for instance, slavery and temperance had on politics.

Call #: BL65.P7 P6365 2013

Faith in empire : religion, politics, and colonial rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 / Elizabeth A. Foster. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: BL2470.S38 F67 2013

God / Mark Vernon. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: BL205 .V48 2012

Reflections on religious individuality : Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian texts and practices / edited by Jörg Rüpke and Wolfgang Spickermann. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: BL25 .R44 Bd. 62

Abraham's ashes : the absurdity of monotheism / Peter Heinegg. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: BL221 .H45 2013

Rastafari : a very short introduction / Ennis B. Edmonds. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Ennis B. Edmonds is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Kenyon College. An authority on African Diaspora Religions, Religion in America, and Sociology of Religion, he is the author of Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers.

Call #: BL2532.R37 E36 2012

Religion, politics, and the earth : the new materialism / Clayton Crockett & Jeffrey W. Robbins. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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Call #: BL65.C8 C76 2012

Religion, material culture, and archaeology / Julian Droogan. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: BL65.C8 D76 2012

The allure of decadent thinking : religious studies and the challenge of postmodernism / Carl Olson. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: BL41 .O47 2013

From Gabriel to Lucifer : a cultural history of angels / Valery Rees. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: BL477 .R447 2013

Media, myth, and society / Arthur Asa Berger. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Arthur Asa Berger is a professor emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, including Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture; Shop 'Til You Drop; and Agitpop: Political Culture and Communication Theory. Berger is a consulting editor for the journal Humor and is on the editorial committee for Semiotica.

Call #: BL313 .B47 2013