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Education
- B.A.(Hons) Religious Studies, University of Regina
- M.A. Religious Studies, McMaster University
- PhD. Religious Studies, McMaster University
Areas of Specialization
- Buddhism, Hinduism, Death and Immortality
Courses Taught
- RLST 1005 Religion and Roots
- RLST 2266 Death and Immortality in the Religions of the East
- RLST 2267 Death and Immortality in the Religions of the West
- RLST 2276 Buddhism: The Hinayana Tradition
- RLST 2277 Buddhism: The Mahayana Tradition
- RLST 3276 Hinduism: Origins and Development
- RLST 3277 Hinduism: Modern Interpreters and Modern Movements
- RLST 4225 Special Readings in the Religions of the World
Current areas of research interest
Recent Publications
- ?r?dhakam?rti/Adisth?yakam?rti: Popular Piety, Politics and the Medieval Jain Temple Portrait, Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2003.
- “The P?duk? in Jain Art and History, “ Jinamanjari.
- “Jain Monasticism in “An Age Without Eminence”: The Early History of a Jain Cult of the Monastic Dead.” In Mysticism: Selected Essays. Essays in Honour of John Sahadat. Edited by Melchior Mbonimpa and Guy Bonneau. Sudbury: Éditions Glopro, 2002. Reprinted in Jinamanjari (forthcoming).
- “Portraiture in the Patronage of the Jain Ministers Vastup?la and Trejahp?la” In Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions, Edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003.
- “Jain Monasticism in “An Age Without Eminence”: Religious Gifting and the Acquisition and Transfer of Merit,” Asiatische Studien Études Asiatiques L.V., no.2
(2001): 321-347.
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