Peter Flügel

Region of Interest

South Asia

Primary Country of Residence

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Title

Ph.D.

Affiliation

SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies

Email

pf@cix.co.uk

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

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 020-88307283

Countries of Specialization

India

Research Interests

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

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.

Keywords

South Asia ; religion ; Jainism ; Asceticism ; ritual ; Western India ; capitalism ; globalization.