SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Barrett, T. H. (1996) Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire during the Golden Age of Chinese History. London: Wellsweep.

Barrett, T. H. and Xun, Zhou (2001) The Wisdom of the Confucians. Oxford: Oneworld.

Black, Brian (2007) The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upanishads. New York: State University of New York Press.

Chau, Adam (2006) Miraculous Response. Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

Crosby, Kate (2009) The Dead of Night and the Women. New York: New York University Press. (Clay Sanskrit Library)

Dwyer, Rachel (2008) What do Hindus believe? London: Granta.

Fardon, Richard (1990) Between God, the dead and the wild: Chamba interpretations of religion and ritual. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute. (International African library, 8)

Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius (2022) Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Jaina Studies) (Forthcoming)

Malinar, Angelika (2007) The Bhagavadgita: Doctrines and Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Proferes, Theodore N. (2007) Vedic Ideals of Sovereignty and the Poetics of Power. New Haven: American Oriental Society.

Singh, Gurharpal and Tatla, Darshan Singh (2006) Sikhs in Britain: The making of a community. London: Zed Books.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2011) Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse 819; Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 61)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2000) The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Nota Bene)

Webster, David R (2012) Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy. Winchester: Zero.

Webster, David R (2005) The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon. London: Routledge. (RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Brodbeck, Simon and Black, Brian, eds. (2007) Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata. London: Routledge. (Routledge Hindu studies series)

Flügel, Peter, De Jonckheere, Heleen and Söhnen-Thieme, Renate, eds. (2023) Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. London: Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS.

Zene, Cosimo, ed. (2013) Religion and Dialogue. Special issue of Culture and Dialogue, Vol.3, No. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. (Culture and Dialogue)

Singh, Gurharpal, Shackle, Christopher and Mandair, Arvind-pal, eds. (2000) Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. London: Curzon.

Shackle, Christopher and Mandair, Arvind-pal, eds. (2005) Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures. London; New York: Routledge.

Howard, Keith, ed. (1998) Korean Shamanism: Revivals, Survivals and Change. Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society and Seoul Computer Press.

Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius, eds. (2016) Jaina-Onomasticon by Johannes Klatt. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Jaina Studies)

Book Chapters

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2018) 'Muhammad abu Zahra’s muslim Theology of Religions.' In: Walters, James, (ed.), Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are shaping Today's World. London: Gingko, pp. 101-114.

Barrett, T. H. (2002) 'Introduction to Religion and Biography in China and Tibet.' In: Penny, B., (ed.), Religion and Biography in China and Tibet. London: Curzon, pp. 1-12.

Black, Brian (2011) 'Ambattha and Svetaketu: Literary Connections between the Upanishads and Early Buddhism.' In: Lindquist, Steven, (ed.), Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle. London: Anthem Press.

Black, Brian (2007) 'Eavesdropping on the Epic: Female Listeners in the Mahabharata.' In: Brodbeck, Simon and Black, Brian, (eds.), Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata. London: Routledge. (Routledge Hindu studies series)

Branfoot, Crispin (2022) 'Building Networks: Architecture, Ornament and Place in Early Modern South India.' In: Ambach, Malini, Buchholz, Jonas and Hüsken, Ute, (eds.), Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, pp. 265-290.

Cox, Whitney (2011) 'Saffron in the Rasam.' In: Bronner, Yigal, (ed.), South Asian Texts in History: critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Association for Asian Studies, pp. 177-201. (Asia Past and Present)

Flügel, Peter (2023) 'The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.' In: van Lit, L. W. Cornelis and Morris, James Harry, (eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 157-175. (Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion)

Flügel, Peter (2022) 'Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892.' In: Mangold-Will, Sabine, Rauch, Christoph and Schmitt, Siegfried, (eds.), Sammler-Bibliothekare-Forscher: Zur Geschichte der Orientalischen Sammlungen an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, pp. 151-207. (Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie Sonderband 124)

Flügel, Peter (2023) 'Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations.' In: Flügel, Peter, De Jonckheere, Heleen and Söhnen-Thieme, Renate, (eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. London: Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, pp. 4-14.

Flügel, Peter (2023) 'The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga.' In: Flügel, Peter, De Jonckheere, Heleen and Söhnen-Thieme, Renate, (eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. London: Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, pp. 172-193.

Flügel, Peter, Krüger, Patrick and Shah, Priyanka (2023) 'Six Jaina Bronzes.' In: Flügel, Peter, De Jonckheere, Heleen and Söhnen-Thieme, Renate, (eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. London: Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, pp. 96-103.

Gore, Charles (2002) 'Traditions and Transformations in African Religions.' In: Fletcher, Paul, Kawanami, Hiroko, Smith, David and Woodhead, Linda, (eds.), Religion in the Modern World. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 204-230.

Hawthorne, Sian and Auga, Ulrike (2017) 'Homonationalism and the Challenge of Queer Theology.' In: Hawthorne, Sian, (ed.), Gender: God. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 367-383. (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks)

Matsunaga, Louella (2002) 'Familiarity and Difference: Relocating Sukyo Mahikari in the UK.' In: Prohl, I. and Zinser, H., (eds.), Zen, Reiki, Karate: Japanishche Religiositat in Europa. Hamburg: Tuebingen.

Matsunaga, Louella (2000) 'Spirit First, Mind Follows, Body Belongs: Notions of health, illness, and disease in Sukyo Mahikari UK.' In: Clarke, Peter B., (ed.), Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective. Richmond: Curzon Press.

Peel, J.D.Y. (2004) 'Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa.' In: Whitehouse, H. and Laidlaw, J., (eds.), Ritual and Memory. Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, pp. 11-30.

Singh, Gurharpal, Graham, D., Gillat, S., Zavos, John and Woodhead, Linda (2012) 'Religious Minorities: Judaism, Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.' In: Woodhead, Linda and Catto, Rebecca, (eds.), Religion and Change in Modern Britain. London: Routledge.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'The Adoption of the Swedish Rite in Eighteenth-Century Russia – Acculturation, Power Politics and Mysticism.' In: Hartley, Janet M. and Shaw, Denis J. B., (eds.), Magic, texts and travels: homage to a scholar, Will Ryan. London: Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, pp. 79-99.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium.' In: La Porta, Sergio and Bardakjian, Kevork, (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, pp. 379-433. (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, Volume: 25)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics.' In: Reichberg, Gregory M. and Syse, Henrik, (eds.), Religion, War, and Ethics A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 164-234.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature.' In: Radulović, N., (ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, pp. 13-29. (CEENASWE 2)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research.' In: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali, De Cillis, Maria, De Smet, Daniel and Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan, (eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Turnhout, Belgium: Belgium, pp. 723-742. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, vol. 177)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2012) 'The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians.' In: Biliarsky, Ivan, Oroveanu, Anca and Cristea, Ovidiu, (eds.), The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 106-116.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.' In: Sosnowska, Danuta and Drzewiecka, Ewelina, (eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought. Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, pp. 129-144.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2009) 'Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.' In: Popovski, Vesselin, Reichberg, Gregory M. and Turner, Nicholas, (eds.), World Religions and Norms of War. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 166-220.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance.' In: Pries, Andreas H., Martzolff, Laetitia, Ambos, Claus and Langer, Robert, (eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 131-151. (Studies in Oriental Religions (67))

Stoyanov, Yuri (2015) 'Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions.' In: Silverstein, Adam J. and Stroumsa, Guy G., (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 405-425. (Oxford Handbooks)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2020) 'The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates.' In: Ferrari, Silvio and Benzo, Andrea, (eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 25-36. (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2017) 'St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.' In: Panov, Mitko B., (ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe. Skopje, North Macedonia: Euro-Balkan University, pp. 19-28.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism.' In: Blidstein, Moshe, Ruzer, Serge and Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-217. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 112)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.' In: Kulnazarova, Aigul and Popovski, Vesselin, (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 461-476. (Palgrave Handbooks)

Söhnen-Thieme, Renate (2009) 'Indra in the Harivamsa.' In: Goldman, R. P. and Tokunaga, M., (eds.), Epic Undertakings. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, pp. 335-370. (Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference held in Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July 2003, vol. 2)

Waghmar, Burzine (2016) 'An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama.' In: Sharma, Sunil and Waghmar, Burzine, (eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, pp. 144-180.

Waghmar, Burzine (2016) 'Iridescent Iran: Persian palimpsest, Mazdean mosaic.' In: Cama, Shernaz, (ed.), Threads of Continuity: Zoroastrian Life and Culture. New Delhi: Parzor Foundation, pp. 215-224.

Webster, David R (2008) 'Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'?' In: Cheetham, David and King, Rolfe, (eds.), Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion. London: Continuum, pp. 87-100. (Continuum religious studies)

Webster, David R (2008) 'Death and Religion.' In: Earle, Sarah, Komaromy, Carol and Bartholomew, Caroline, (eds.), Death and Dying : A Reader. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 42-47.

Webster, David R (2003) 'Some explanatory notes on Buddhism.' In: Astley, Jeff, Brown, David and Loades, Ann, (eds.), Evil : a reader. London: T and T Clark Continuum. (Problems in theology ; v 2)

Zene, Cosimo (2003) 'Religion, Dialogue and Fear of the Other.' In: Raveri, Massimo, (ed.), Le Religion e la Pace. Venezia, Italy: Marsilio, pp. 303-321.

Journal Article

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ.' Film and Philosophy: The Journal of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts., 27. pp. 89-103.

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity.' Culture and Dialogue, 11 (1). pp. 85-103.

Cox, Whitney (2012) 'A South Indian Śākta Anthropogony: an annotated translation of selections from Maheśvarānanda's Mahārthamañjarīparimala, gāthās 19 and 20.' Journal of Indian Philosophy, 40 (2). pp. 199-218.

Errichiello, Mariano (2021) 'Conferment of meaning to Mount Damāvand between Indo-Iranian Myths and Zoroastrian Pilgrimages.' Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, 25 (1-3). pp. 219-229.

Flügel, Peter (2021) 'Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 25. pp. 213-308.

Flügel, Peter (2023) 'Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 26.

Flügel, Peter, Balogh, Dániel, Wright, J. Clifford and Mallinson, James (2020) 'Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain.' Jaina Studies - Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 15. pp. 23-30.

Flügel, Peter, Wright, J. Clifford, Balogh, Dániel, Mevissen, Gerd and Willis, Michael (2019) 'Riddles of the Rock-Carved Hindu and Jaina Sculptures and Inscriptions at Rakhetrā.' Jaina Studies - Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 14. pp. 24-30.

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2021) 'Locating Pandemic Grief in Sarajevo: Georgic Notes Against Self-Isolating Regimes.' Forum Bosnae, 91-92. pp. 308-326.

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2021) 'My Grandmother Drank the Qur’an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia.' CounterText (Special Issue: Theologies of Reading), 7 (1). pp. 73-89.

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2018) 'Syncretic Debris: From Shared Bosnian Saints to the ICTY Courtroom.' Tradition, Performance and Identity Politics in European Festivals (Special issue of Ethnoscripts), 20 (1). pp. 79-109.

Li, Zijie (2010) '三十年来中国的日本宗教研究.' 日本研究 (Japan Studies), 133 (2).

Orsini, Francesca (2015) 'Booklets and Sants: Religious Publics and Literary History.' South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 38 (3). pp. 435-449.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2019) 'Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy.' Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 7 (1). pp. 61-84.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 11. pp. 443-461.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.' Scrinium, 14 (1). pp. 334-350.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2010) 'Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (3). pp. 261-272.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2001) 'Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 64 (1). pp. 19-33.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 3. pp. 149-166.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.' The Silk Road, Fourth Conference on Chinese Studies, 4. pp. 291-300.

Waghmar, Burzine and Frye, Richard N. (1999) ''Zoroastrians in the Early Islamic Period,’ trans. of Richard Frye, ‘Zoroastrier in der frühislamischer Zeit,’ Der Islam, 40 (1965): 198-99.' Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 63. pp. 94-97.

Webster, David R (1998) 'The Buddha in the Machine: Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence.' Philosopher, 86 (1).

Webster, David R (2008) 'A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue.' Buddhist Studies Review, 25 (1).

Webster, David R (2005) 'The Weary Buddha Or Why the Buddha Nearly Couldn't Be Bothered.' Buddhist Studies Review, 22 (1). pp. 15-25.

Yaqin, Amina (2013) 'Autobiography and Muslim Women's Lives.' Journal of Women's History, 25 (2). pp. 171-184.

Conference or Workshop Items

Flügel, Peter (2002) The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited. In: Jaina Studies Panel, 12th World Sanskrit Conference, 14 July 2003, Helsinki. (Unpublished)

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (2020) Locating Pandemic Grief in Sarajevo : Georgic Notes Against Self-Isolating Regimes. In: Sixth International Conference Sarajevo and the World: Pandemic Perspectives, April-May 2020, online.

Book Reviews

Centeno, Marcos (2015) 'Review of: Anime, Religion and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan. By Katharine Buljan and Carole M. Cusack. Equinox, 2015.' Reading Religion. A Publication of the American Academy of Religion .

Daily, Christopher A (2014) 'Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities.' The China Quarterly, 219 . pp. 897-899.

Howard, Keith (2016) 'Review of Thomas Karl Alberts, Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79 (3). pp. 679-681.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Augspurger, Jens (2022) Echtes Yoga in der digitalen Welt? Blog: Religion, Technologien und Künstliche Intelligenz. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg. Blog: Religion, Technologien und Künstliche Intelligenz. [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Datasets

Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius (editors) (2021) Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Datasets]

Other

Hamzić, Vanja (2007) 'Religious Developments in the Western Balkans: Transitional Religion.' Shift Mag, 12 . pp. 14-18.

Merchasin, Carol, Pankhania, Josna, [Commissioners of Report: Gollat, Angela, Abu Matar, Antonia and Augspurger, Jens Uwe] (2020) 'Project Satya: Investigation Interim Report #1.' Project Satya.

Merchasin, Carol, Pankhania, Josna, [Commissioners of Report: Gollat, Angela, Abu Matar, Antonia and Augspurger, Jens Uwe] (2020) 'Project Satya: Investigation Interim Report #3.' Project Satya.

Webster, David R (2014) 'Paganism in daily life?' YouTube.

Webster, David R (2014) 'Talking about religion and fandom: from Jedi and Vampires to Game of Thrones.' YouTube.

Webster, David R (2014) 'Who is the Audience for Contemporary Spiritism?' YouTube.