Selected books and articles read over the last 3 years

Anscombe, GEM Modern Moral Philosophy

Asad, Talal On Ritual and Discipline in Medieval Christian Monasticism

Balthasar, Hans Urs von A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen

Balthasar, Hans Urs von Explorations in Theology Vol 5: Man is Created

Barkhuizen, J.H. Romanos The Melodist: On Adam And Eve And The Nativity

Bell, Catherine Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions

Bourdieu, Pierre Outline of a theory of practice

Bulgakov, Sergius The Holy Grail and The Eucharist

Bunge, Gabriel Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Acedia

Canguilhem, Georges A Vital Rationalist

Canguilhem, Georges On the Normal and the Pathological

Carson, D. A. Becoming Conversant With the Emerging Church

Carter, Tim & Butt, John The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Chauvet, Louis-Marie Symbol and Sacrament

Faure, Bernard Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context

Foucault, Michel Technologies of the Self

Girard, Rene I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

Green, Andre Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious

Haerwas, Stanley et al Growing Old in Christ

Hagen, Kurtis Xunzi and the Nature of Confucian Ritual

Hart, David Bentley The Beauty of the Infinite

Hiley, David Western plainchant

Holloway, Kenneth W. The quest for ecstatic morality in early China

Judd, DCC Aspects of tonal coherence in the motets of Josquin

Kavanagh, Aidan Elements of Rite: A Handbook of Liturgical Style

Kuhse, Helga and Singer Peter A Companion to Bioethics

Lopez, Donald S. Religions of China in practice

McVey, Kathleen E. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns

Mills, C Wright The Sociological Imagination

Misak, Cheri The Cambridge Companion to Peirce

Mudd, Joseph C. Eucharist as Meaning

Nussbaum, Martha Non-relative virtues

Oakes Edward T., SJ. & Moss, David The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Pickstock, Catherine After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy

Pickstock, Catherine Liturgy and Modernity

Raimon Panikkar The Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures

Ramanujan, AK Speaking of Siva

Rappaport, Roy Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

Sawkins, Lionel Doucement and lgrement: Tempo in French Baroque Music

Schatzki,TR, Cetina K & von Savigny E The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

Schippers, Arie Ibn Zabara's Book of Delight (Barcelona, 1170) and the Transmission of Wisdom From East to West

Schmemann, Alexander Great Lent: A School of Repentance Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians

Sertillanges, AG The Intellectual Life

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mehdi Aminrazavi An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Volume 1: From Zoroaster to Omar Khayyam

Sigurdsson, Geir Learning and Li: The Confucian Process of Humanization through Ritual Propriety

Smith, Jonathan Z. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual

Taft, Robert F. Beyond east and west. Problems in liturgical understanding

Tambiah, Stanley J. A Performative Approach to Ritual

Verghese, Abraham The bedside evaluation: ritual and reason

Volf, Miroslav Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

West, Fritz A reader's guide to the methodological writings of Anton Baumstark

Yannaras, Christos Variations on the Song of Songs