There are places left on the last Information Skills session for the Study of Religions, which is taking place this Thursday (17th November) between 3 and 4 p.m. in Room E17 (Library)
If you would like to attend, please email ms28@soas.ac.uk and also let me know if there are any topics you particularly want to discuss
If you cannot make the 17th November and have any queries relating to Library resources, please do not hesitate to contact me
Monday, 14 November 2011
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Hajj and Eid al-Adha 2011
An excellent photo essay from Atlantic Magazine online looks at this year's Hajj pilgrimage and celebrations of Eid al-Adha across the globe
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Islamic art in New York
The new galleries of Islamic art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art have just re-opened following a renovation which began in 2003.
This article in the New York Times reviews the new galleries
"The art itself, some 1,200 works spanning more than 1,000 years, is beyond fabulous. An immense cultural vista — necessary, liberating, intoxicatingly pleasurable — has been restored to the city."
This article in the New York Times reviews the new galleries
"The art itself, some 1,200 works spanning more than 1,000 years, is beyond fabulous. An immense cultural vista — necessary, liberating, intoxicatingly pleasurable — has been restored to the city."
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Piecing together the Cairo Genizah: new technology aims to reunite fragments
The American Friends of Tel Aviv University report on a project currently underway at Tel Aviv University to piece together digitally the fragments from the Cairo Genizah that are currently scattered among 70 institutions worldwide, including Cambridge, Jerusalem and New York
Visit their website to find out more about this project, that involves using technology based on facial recognition software to identity digitized fragments belonging to the same text
Visit their website to find out more about this project, that involves using technology based on facial recognition software to identity digitized fragments belonging to the same text
Friday, 7 October 2011
Jesuits in China : book review
Read the review of Mary Laven's Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit encounter with China (published this year by Faber) in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History
The reviewer is our own Dr Lars Laaman
Dr Laven is a lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Jesus College
The click HERE to read her response.
If you want to read the book yourself, SOAS has a copy at CC266.2 / 734467.
Click HERE to check the catalogue
The reviewer is our own Dr Lars Laaman
Dr Laven is a lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Jesus College
The click HERE to read her response.
If you want to read the book yourself, SOAS has a copy at CC266.2 / 734467.
Click HERE to check the catalogue
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Welcome to SOAS
Follow the Study of Religions blog for updates on SOAS Library resources, book reviews, websites, news-stories and much more
You can go to the Information skills pages on the BLE for general research guides, guides to the various databases and subject specific research guides
You can go to the Information skills pages on the BLE for general research guides, guides to the various databases and subject specific research guides
You can also use the Subject Guide for Religions on the main Library website for internet resources selected by Library staff : http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/religions/
If you have any queries about the religions collections in SOAS Library, finding books and journals, or using any of the online resources, you can contact me:
Mary Seeley (Subject Librarian for History and Religions; Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica)
Room C3 (Library)
Email: ms28@soas.ac.uk
Tel.: 020-7898-4195
If you have any queries about the religions collections in SOAS Library, finding books and journals, or using any of the online resources, you can contact me:
Mary Seeley (Subject Librarian for History and Religions; Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica)
Room C3 (Library)
Email: ms28@soas.ac.uk
Tel.: 020-7898-4195
Friday, 23 September 2011
Gersonides: Judaism within the limits of reason: book review
Levi ben Gershom was a 14th century Jewish philosopher, born in Orange in Provence (southern France)
Seymour Feldman analyses his life and work in Gersonides: Judaism within the limits of reason, published in 2010 by the Littman Library for Jewish Civilization
Read the H-Net Review by Norbert Samuelson (Arizona State University) on Humanities and Socials Sciences Online.
Read the book in SOAS Library at QN181.06 / 736666 .
Click here to check the catalogue directly
Seymour Feldman analyses his life and work in Gersonides: Judaism within the limits of reason, published in 2010 by the Littman Library for Jewish Civilization
Read the H-Net Review by Norbert Samuelson (Arizona State University) on Humanities and Socials Sciences Online.
Read the book in SOAS Library at QN181.06 / 736666 .
Click here to check the catalogue directly
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