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The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities. In L. W. C. van Lit, & J. H. Morris (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (157-175). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607-008

How can the blind spots in Jaina social and intellectual history be investigated in a systematic fashion given the fragmentary nature of the evidence? The idea of a prosopographical database with a sociological focus emerged organically from a SOAS C... Read More about The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.

Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality (2023)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2023). Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality. In L. Corti, & J.-G. Schülein (Eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy (343-363). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41558-6_19

My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a powerful conceptual resource for explicating the cognitive pathology of scientism, and for also contr... Read More about Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality.

Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2023)
Journal Article
Karamursel, C. (online). Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Gender and History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12755

This article traces the ways in which the newly inaugurated Turkish Republic dealt with such institutional and legal ‘relics’ as the imperial harem, slavery and polygamy, that it inherited from its immediate, largely undesirable imperial past, condem... Read More about Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History (2023)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2023). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History. Berliner indologische Studien, 26,

The concluding part of the essay Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhadeśa II presents illustrated sections on Indora, Māmoṃ, Thūbana, Bahorībanda, Seroṃna, Pacarāī, Golākoṭa, Mahebā and Bajarañgagaṛha, Devagaṛha and Būṛhī Canderī. It introduces the method of f... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History.

Integration of religious beliefs and faith-based resources in domestic violence services to migrant and ethnic minority communities: A scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Istratii, R., Ali, P., Feder, G., & Mshweshwe, L. (2023). Integration of religious beliefs and faith-based resources in domestic violence services to migrant and ethnic minority communities: A scoping review. *Journal not in list, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3481054/v1

Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is a problem that cuts across borders and communities. There is an urgency for domestic violence service providers in multicultural societies like the United Kingdom (UK) to adapt to the diverse backgrounds of their... Read More about Integration of religious beliefs and faith-based resources in domestic violence services to migrant and ethnic minority communities: A scoping review.