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Vernacularising Jainism: The Dharmaparīkṣā by Manohardās (2023)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2023). Vernacularising Jainism: The Dharmaparīkṣā by Manohardās. Religions of South Asia, 17(2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.23301

This article argues that the religious and social developments of seventeenth-century Jain communities in northern India can be characterized as vernacularization. This is a process in which religious expression turns towards the quotidian, the local... Read More about Vernacularising Jainism: The Dharmaparīkṣā by Manohardās.

Review of: First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India. By Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea (2023)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2023). Review of: First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India. By Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea. Journal of Hindu Studies, 16(3), 372-373. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiad008

Book Review of Deven M. Patel, Text to Tradition: The Naiṣadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia (2022)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2022). Book Review of Deven M. Patel, Text to Tradition: The Naiṣadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 9(1/2), 173-179. https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2023-1000

A song for Jains or a song for India : contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis (2021)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2021). A song for Jains or a song for India : contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis. Contemporary South Asia, 29(4), 579-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2021.1995327

This article studies the interaction of religiosity and national sentiment on the popular level of Jainism in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. It does so through a case study of a Jain popular song, which was created as a response to the everyday im... Read More about A song for Jains or a song for India : contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis.

Jainism and money : the 21st Jaina Studies workshop at SOAS (2020)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2020). Jainism and money : the 21st Jaina Studies workshop at SOAS. Jaina studies, 12-15

'Examining Religion' through Generations of Jain Audiences: The Circulation of the Dharmaparīkṣā (2019)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2019). 'Examining Religion' through Generations of Jain Audiences: The Circulation of the Dharmaparīkṣā. Religions, 10(5), 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10050308

Indian literary traditions, both religious and non-religious, have dealt with literature in a fluid way, repeating and reusing narrative motifs, stories and characters over and over again. In recognition of this, the current paper will focus on one p... Read More about 'Examining Religion' through Generations of Jain Audiences: The Circulation of the Dharmaparīkṣā.