Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sehlikoglu, S., Caron, J., & Polat, A. (online). Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’. History and Anthropology, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2025.2460787

This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approac... Read More about Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’.

Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (online). Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence. History and Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence.

What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Errichiello, M. (2024). What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach. Religiographies, 3(1), 56-74

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, different interpretations of Zoroastrianism began to emerge among the Parsis of India. Some of these interpretations were based on ideas that Parsis defined as “esoteric.” This article examines the part... Read More about What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach.

New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism (2024)
Journal Article
Errichiello, M., Piraino, F., & Vevaina, Y. S.-D. (2024). New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism. Religiographies, 3(1), 2-7

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.

Transforming Lives and Businesses: Spiritual Aspirations in Yoga Marketing (2022)
Journal Article
Augspurger, J. U. (2022). Transforming Lives and Businesses: Spiritual Aspirations in Yoga Marketing. Implicit Religion, 25(3/4), 311-336. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.27215

This article explores the aspirational marketing modalities promoted by “spiritual marketing coaches” (SMC) that target freelancers in the well-being and yoga sector. It focuses on the narratives of success applied in what is essentially a “marketing... Read More about Transforming Lives and Businesses: Spiritual Aspirations in Yoga Marketing.

Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation (2022)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Khan, S. (2022). Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation. Critical Asian Studies, 54(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2030776

This article’s premise is that war is ontological devastation, and that this opens up questions as to how to write about it. It contends that even critiques of war, whether critical-geopolitical analyses of global structures or ethnographies of the e... Read More about Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation.

An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021, March). An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021. Presented at Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Cambridge Festival 2021), Online

This experimental panel invites the audience to engage with visual research of interfaith relations and shared religious environments by producing collaborative ‘chain poems’ to be used as prompts in the Q&A with the researchers. 'An Interfaith Pictu... Read More about An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021.

On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects (2021)
Thesis
Fuentes, A. On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation explores material knowledge and cultural histories of the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects by means of the combined methodologies of conservation, technical art history, iconographic analysis, cultural anthropology and... Read More about On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain (2020)
Journal Article
Flügel, P., Balogh, D., Wright, J. C., & Mallinson, J. (2020). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain. Jaina studies, 15, 23-30

The article introduces the term 'non-tīrtha' as a new analytical category to designate Jaina sacred sites that have vanished or do not yet exist, according to the cyclical Jaina conception of history. It presents new evidence on two different Digamba... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain.

Review of Luithle-Hardenberg, Andrea: Die Reise zum Ursprung. Die Pilgerschaft der Shvetambara-Jaina zum Berg Shatrunjaya in Gujarat, Indien. München: Manya Verlag 2011. (2019)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2019). Review of Luithle-Hardenberg, Andrea: Die Reise zum Ursprung. Die Pilgerschaft der Shvetambara-Jaina zum Berg Shatrunjaya in Gujarat, Indien. München: Manya Verlag 2011. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 114(2), 76-77. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2019-0052

Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms (Part I) (2018)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2018). Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms (Part I). Max Weber studies, 18(2), 212-273

While ‘individuality’ is regarded as a cultural construct, this article argues that its trans-cultural investigation has hardly begun, both empirically and theoretically. Comparative work to date has been confined to euro-centric approaches. South As... Read More about Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms (Part I).

Jaina Rituals of Death: History, Doctrine and Practice (2015)
Book
Flügel, P. (in press). Jaina Rituals of Death: History, Doctrine and Practice. Routledge

In this book, the author presents recent, somewhat unexpected, findings on the thriving cult of bone relic stupas and the ritual role of the materiality of the dead amongst contemporary Jains. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, clear evidence is... Read More about Jaina Rituals of Death: History, Doctrine and Practice.

Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet (2013)
Book
Dhondup, Y., Pagel, U., & Samuel, G. (Eds.). (2013). Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004256422

In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic p... Read More about Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet.

Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of Mexico (2011)
Journal Article
Githiora, C. (2011). Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of Mexico. African renaissance, 8(2), 10-24

This article discusses a little known branch of the African Diaspora: Afro-Mexicans, who make up the chronological third “root” of modern Mexico, after the indigenous Mexican and Spanish European. Documented presence of Africans in Mexico goes back t... Read More about Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of Mexico.

Respected Grandfather Bless this Nissan: Benevolent and Politically Neutral Bo Bo Gyi (2005)
Book Chapter
Sadan, M. (2005). Respected Grandfather Bless this Nissan: Benevolent and Politically Neutral Bo Bo Gyi. In M. Skidmore (Ed.), Burma at the turn of the 21st Century (90-111). University of Hawai’i Press

The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flügel, P. (2003, July). The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited. Presented at Jaina Studies Panel, 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki

The presentation given at the 12th WSC in Helsinki 2003 provides an overview of the origin and decline of the Loṅkā traditions with a focus on the line of succession, infrastructure and religious practices of the Gujarātī Loṅkāgaccha Moṭā Pakṣa, the... Read More about The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited.

The Kachin Photographs: a documentary record of contact (2000)
Book Chapter
Sadan, M. (2000). The Kachin Photographs: a documentary record of contact. In E. Dell (Ed.), Burma Frontier Photographs: 1918-1935 (67-93). Merrell Publishers

The Kachin Photographs in the J.H. Green Collection: a contemporary context (2000)
Book Chapter
Sadan, M. (2000). The Kachin Photographs in the J.H. Green Collection: a contemporary context. In E. Dell (Ed.), Burma Frontier Photographs: 1918-1935 (51-65). Merrell Publishers