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.

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 (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.

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.

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 (2021) 'Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 26. (Forthcoming)

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.

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.

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.