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Authored Books

Barrett, T. H. (2008) The Woman Who Discovered Printing. London: Yale University Press.

Kotwal, Firoze M. and Hintze, Almut (2008) The Khorda Avesta and Yašt Codex E1. Facsimile edition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Iranica; Bd.16)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Crosby, Kate, ed. (2008) Kammic Communities: theory and practice in modern Theravada. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. (Special Issue: Contemporary Buddhism. Volume 9, Number 1)

Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2008) The Sasanian Era. London: I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran)

Book Chapters

Black, Brian (2008) 'The Upanishads.' In: Billimoria, Purushottama, (ed.), The Routledge History of Indian Philosophy. Routledge.

De Blois, Francois (2008) 'Translation in the ancient Iranian world.' In: Kittel, Harald, (ed.), Übersetzung - Translation - Traduction, Volume 2. Berlin; New York: Walter de gruyter, pp. 1194-1198.

Dolce, Lucia (2008) 'Girei ni yori seisei sareru kanzen naru shintai –chûsei mikkyô no ‘hiseitôteki zuzô’ to shuhô o megutte [儀礼により生成される完全なる身体 –-中世密教の「非正統的」図像と修法をめぐって.' In: Yasurô, Abe, (ed.), Nihon ni okeru shûkyô tekisuto no shoisô to tôjihô. Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku bungakubu gurobaru COE puroguramu, pp. 58-71.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2008) 'The Churches of the Near East and Their Missions From the Persian to the Turkish Conquest, 604-1071.' In: Smith, Julia M. H. and Noble, Thomas F. X., (eds.), Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600-c.1100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-85.

Flügel, Peter (2008) 'The Unknown Lonka: Tradition and the Cultural Unconscious.' In: Caillat, Colette and Balbir, Nalini, (eds.), Jaina Studies. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, pp. 181-279. (Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference Vol. 9.)

Gifford, Paul (2008) 'Africa’s Churches and the Second Liberation Struggle of 1989-93.' In: Koschorke, Klaus, (ed.), Falling Walls. The Year 1989/90 as a Turning Point in the History of World Christianity. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Gifford, Paul (2008) 'Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa: a Response.' In: Ranger, Terence O., (ed.), Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 225-231. (Evangelical Christianity and democracy in the Global South)

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2008) '«Die Mauer muss weg!», oder: Alles ist für sich singulär. Gedanken zur islamwissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit Südasien in Deutschland. [«The Wall Must Fall!», or: Everything is Unique in Itself. Thoughts on Dealing with South Asia in Islamic Studies in Germany].' In: Poya, Abbas and Reinkowski, Maurus, (eds.), Das Unbehagen in der Islamwissenschaft. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 85-104.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2008) 'Wahhābīs and Anti-Wahhābīs: The Learned Discourse on Sufism in Contemporary South Asia.' In: Lassen, Søren Christian and van Skyhawk, Hugh, (eds.), Sufi Traditions and New Departures. Recent Scholarship on Continuity and Change in South Asian Sufism. Islamabad: Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, pp. 82-110. (Taxila studies in Asian civilizations, 1.)

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'The Halitza Shoe: Between Female Subjugation and Symbolic Emasculation.' In: Nahshon, Edna, (ed.), Jews and Shoes. Oxford and New York: Berg, pp. 47-63.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Rabbinische Gleichnisse und ihre Vergleichbarkeit mit neutestamentlichen Gleichnissen.' In: Zimmermann, Ruben, (ed.), Hermeneutik der Gleichnisse Jesu. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 217-237. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, XX)

Hintze, Almut (2008) 'Treasure in Heaven. A Theme in Comparative Religion.' In: Shaked, Shaul and Netzer, Amnon, (eds.), Irano-Judaica. Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture Throughout the Ages. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, pp. 9-36.

Hunter, Erica C D (2008) 'The Christian Matrix of al-Hira.' In: Jullien, Christelle, (ed.), Les Controverses des Chretiens dans l’Iran Sassanide. Paris: Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, pp. 41-56. (Cahiers Studia Iranica, 36)

Hunter, Erica C D (2008) 'The Language of Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the Early Islamic Era.' In: Voigt, Rainer, (ed.), "Und das Leben ist siegreich!" : mandäische und samaritanische Literatur : im Gedenken an Rudolf Macuch = "And life is victorious" : Mandaean and Samaritan literatures : in memory of Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 117-126.

Palumbo, Antonello (2008) 'Il rotolo manicheo di Pechino [The Beijing Manichaean Scroll].' In: Gnoli, Gherardo, (ed.), Il Manicheismo. Volume III, Il mito e la dottrina: testi manichei dell'Asia Centrale e della Cina. Florence: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla e Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, pp. 293-336.

Palumbo, Antonello (2008) 'La dottrina manichea nel «Compendio» di Dunhuang.' In: Gnoli, Gherardo, (ed.), Il Manicheismo. Volume III, Il mito e la dottrina: testi manichei dell'Asia Centrale e della Cina. Milan: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla e Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, pp. 337-346.

Singh, Gurharpal (2008) 'The Partition of India as State Contraction: Some Unspoken Assumption.' In: Tan, Tan Yong and Kudaisya, Gyanesh, (eds.), Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 85-99.

Singh, Gurharpal (2008) 'The State and Religious Diversity in Post-Independence India.' In: Talbot, Ian, (ed.), The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics and Violence in India and Pakistan, 1947-2000. Karachi: Oxford University Press, pp. 60-77.

Skorupski, Tadeusz (2008) 'The Buddhist Permutations of Consciousness.' In: Esoteric Buddhist studies : identity in diversity : proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist studies, Koyasan University, 5 Sept.-8 Sept. 2006. Koya-mati: Koyasan University, pp. 155-170.

Skorupski, Tadeusz (2008) 'Buddhist Visions of Death and Rebirth.' In: Skorupski, Tadeusz, (ed.), Sztuka życia, śmierci i umierania : czterdzieści dziewięć chwil bardo w buddyzmie tybetańskim = The art of life, death and dying : forty-nine moments of bardo in tibetan buddhism. Warsaw: Asia and Pacyfic Museum, pp. 9-62.

Journal Article

Crosby, Kate (2008) 'Changing the Landscape of Theravada Studies Contemporary.' Contemporary Buddhism, 9 (1). pp. 1-6.

Crosby, Kate (2008) 'Gendered Symbols in Theravada Buddhism: Missed Positives in the Representation of the Female.' Hsuan Chuang Journal of Buddhist Studies, 9. pp. 31-47.

Crosby, Kate (2008) 'Karma, Social Collapse or Geophysics? Interpretations of suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhist in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami.' Contemporary Buddhism, 9 (1). pp. 53-76.

Flügel, Peter (2008) 'Jaina Relic Stūpas.' Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 3. pp. 18-23.

Flügel, Peter (2008) 'Les communautés monastiques jaïnes: histoire et présent. Traduit de l’anglais par Nalini Balbir.' Religions et Histoire, 21. pp. 38-41.

Gifford, Paul (2008) 'Africa's Inculturation Theology: Observations of an Outsider.' Hekima Review, 38. pp. 18-34.

Gifford, Paul (2008) 'The Bible in Africa: a Novel Usage in Africa's New Churches.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (2). pp. 203-218.

Gifford, Paul (2008) 'Trajectories in African Christianity.' International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 8 (4). pp. 275-289.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2008) 'Kami in Fabula: A Tentative Analysis of a Mediaeval Mythological Text.' SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions Newsletter (16-17). pp. 24-27.

Zene, Cosimo (2008) 'Intervento.' Lares, Rivista quadrimestrale di Demoetnoantropologia, LXXIV (2). pp. 276-286.

Book Reviews

Cabrita, Joel (2008) 'Review of Edwin Ardener, “The Voice of Prophecy".' Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 27 (3). pp. 83-86.

Crosby, Kate (2008) 'Review of K.R.Norman, 'A Philological Approach to Buddhism', The Pali Text Society, Lancaster 2006.' Buddhist Studies Review, 25 (1). pp. 113-115.

Hawthorne, Sian (2008) 'Review of: 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal' by Niklaus Largier.' Culture and Religion, 9 (1). pp. 102-105.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of Alexander Samely, 'Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought. An Introduction'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 59 (2). pp. 328-329.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of Israel J. Yuval, 'Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'.' Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76 (1). pp. 202-205.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of Rivka Ulmer, ed., 'Discussing Cultural Differences. Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism', Lanham: University Press of America, 2007.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 133 (10). pp. 1055-1057.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of: Emmanuel Friedheim, 'Rabbinisme et Paganisme en Palestine romaine'. Etude historique des Realia talmudiques (I - IV siecles), Leiden: Brill, 2006.' Frankfurter Judaistische Beitraege, 34 . pp. 201-204.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of: Juergen Zangenberg et al. (eds), 'Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee'. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2007.' Frankfurter Judaistische Beitraege, 34 . pp. 204-208.

Theses

Dickens, Mark (2008) Turkāyē: Turkic Peoples in Syriac Literature prior to the Seljüks. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge.

Translations

Choi, Dongju and Kim, Heewon, trans. (2008) Indo Business Munwhaui Ihae. Doing Business in India . Seoul: Samsung Books.

Other

Zene, Cosimo (2008) '“Non solo Launeddas” e “Il Fondo Bentzon dell’ISRE”.' Istituto Superiore Etnografico della Sardegna . Isre Sardegna.