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Mailing Address Department of the Study of Religions School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Thornhaugh Street Russel Square London WC1H OXG UK 16 Elsinore Gardens London NW2 1SS UK

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Research Interests South Asian Anthropology, History of Religion, Jainism, Asceticism, Ritual, Trade and Traders, Capitalism and Globalization

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Publications * 1994. Askese und Devotion: Das rituelle System der Terapanth Svetambara Jains. Doctoral dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitdt Mainz. 1995-1996. "The ritual circle of the Terapanth Svetambara Jains." Bulletin D'Etudes Indiennes 13: 117-176. 1996. "Jain Revival at the V&A Museum." Anthropology Today 12,1: 16-18. 1998. "Jainism and the Western World: Jinmuktisuri and Georg B|hler and other early encounters." Jinamanjari 18, 2: 36-47 [reprinted in the JAIN JOURNAL 34, 1 (1999) 1-11]. 1999. (& Helene Basu) "Western India and the Indian Ocean." IIAS Newsletter 19 (1999) 18. 2000. "Zum Ursprung der Terapanth Svetambara Jain Tradition." Here-Now4You. http://www.here-now4u.de/Zum_Ursprung_der_Terapanth.htm#Note5. 2000. "Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jain Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthanakavasi Jains I." Berliner Indologische Studien 13-14: 37-104. 2001. "Present Lord: Simandharsvami and the Akram Vijnan Movement." Jinamanjari 21, 1. (in press). "Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jain Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthanakavasi Jains II." Berliner Indologische Studien 15. (in press). "Demographic trends in Jain monasticism." In Professor Satya Ranjan Banerjee Felicitation Volume. Ed. J.R.Bhattacharyya. (in press). "Power and Insight in Jain Discourse." In Doctrines and Dialogues. Ed. A.Henn & H. van Skyhawk. Heidelberg: Contributions to South Asian Studies. (forthcoming). "Atonements in the Rituals of the Terapanth Svetambara Jains." Aspects of Jainism. Eds. Marek Mejor & Piotr Balcerowicz. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas. (forthcoming). "Spiritual Accounting: The role of the kalyanaka patra in the religious economy of the Terapanth Svetambara Jain ascetics in Rajasthan." In Jainism and Early Buddhism in the Indian Cultural Context, Festschrift in Honour of P.S.Jaini. Ed.O.Qvarnstrom. Lund. (forthcoming). Asceticism and Devotion: The ritual system of the Terapanth Svetambara Jains. Bern: Peter Lang. (forthcoming). & G. Houtman (eds.). Asceticism and Power in the Asian Context. London: Curzon.

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