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PhD Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Masters Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Key Chapple is an Indologist and scholar of the renouncing religions of India, namely yoga, Jainism and Buddhism. He is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He has written several books on the history and philosophy of yoga, and on the intersection of religion and ecology.

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Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993) (78)
Religion and Environment (2011) (58)
Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water (2002) (56)
Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life (2004) (41)
Hinduism and Ecology (2005) (32)
Yoga and the Luminous: Patañjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom (2008) (24)
Book Review: The Jesuit Tradition in Education and Missions: A 450-Year Perspective (1996) (23)
Karma and creativity (1986) (20)
The Living Cosmos of Jainism: A Traditional Science Grounded in Environmental Ethics (2001) (13)
Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives (1993) (12)
Inherent Value without Nostalgia: Animals and the Jaina Tradition (2006) (11)
An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion (2012) (10)
Jainism and Ecology (2006) (10)
The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali : an analysis of the Sanskrit with accompanying English translation (1990) (9)
Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra’s Collection of Views on Yoga (2003) (9)
The Myth of Religious Superiority: Multifaith Explorations of Religious Pluralism. Edited by Paul F. Knitter. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2005. xi + 242 pages. $30.00 (paper). (2007) (8)
Hinduism and Deep Ecology (2001) (7)
The Vision of Buddhism (1993) (7)
Contemporary Jaina and Hindu Responses to the Ecological Crisis (1994) (6)
Quest for Identity: The Ideals of Jesuit Education in the Sixteenth Century (1993) (6)
The hidden lives of Brahman : śaṅkara's Vedānta through his Upaniṣad commentaries, in light of contemporary practice (2013) (5)
Religious Environmentalism: Thomas Berry, the Bishnoi, and Satish Kumar (2011) (5)
Reading Patañjali Without Vyasa: A Critique of Four Yoga Sutra Passages (1994) (5)
Jainism and Buddhism (2001) (5)
Jainism and Ecology: Transformation of a Tradition (2006) (4)
Yoga: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English, 1981‐2005 – By Daren Callahan (2008) (4)
Yoga and Ecology: Dharma for the Earth (2009) (4)
The Yoga sūtras of Patañjali (1990) (3)
Sacrifice and Sustainability (2008) (3)
The Khecarīvidyā of Ādhinātha: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of an Early Text of Haṭhayoga. By James Mallinson. (2008) (3)
History of Indian Philosophy: Routledge history of world philosophies (2017) (3)
Psychoeducational implications of West Syndrome (infantile spasm) for primary school children (2019) (3)
YOGA AND THE LUMINOUS (2003) (3)
Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. By Bron Taylor . University of California Press, 2010. 360 pages. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. (2011) (2)
Reincarnation: Mechanics, Narratives, and Implications (2017) (2)
Free Will and Voluntarism in Jainism (2013) (2)
Two Traditional Indian Models for Interreligious Dialogue: Monistic Accommodationism and Flexible Fundamentalism (1993) (2)
Eternal Life, Death, and Dying in Jainism (2010) (2)
Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life (2017) (2)
ASCETICISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2008) (2)
Ethical studies : overview (Eastern) (2008) (2)
Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples:Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples. (1998) (2)
Action Oriented Morality in Hinduism (1989) (2)
Thomas Berry, Buddhism, and the New Cosmology (1998) (2)
Negative Theology of the Yogavasistha and the Lankavatara Sutra (1981) (2)
Yoga in Jainism (2015) (2)
Religious Dissonance and Reconciliation: The Haribhadra Story (2004) (2)
Contemplative pedagogy: a descriptive account of two approaches to student engagement at Loyola Marymount University (2017) (2)
Gandhi's Hope: Learning from Other Religions as a Path to Peace (review) (2006) (2)
The Academic Study of Yoga in India (2020) (2)
Roots, Shoots, and Ahimsa: The Jain Yoga of Vegetarianism (2011) (2)
The Goddess and Ecological Sensitivity: the Cultivation of Earth Knowledge (2008) (1)
Ethics of Synthetic Life: A Jaina Perspective (2013) (1)
Review: Hinduism and Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach (2005) (1)
Pushing the Boundaries of Personal Ethics: The Practice of Jaina Vows (2001) (1)
Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavasistha (2011) (1)
Arjuna's Argument: Family Secrets Unveiled (2001) (1)
Jainism, Ethics, and Ecology (2010) (1)
Tantric Yoga in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa of Hinduism and the Jñānārṇava of Jainism (2017) (1)
Yoga and the Mahabharata: Engaged Renouncers (2006) (1)
Ahimsa in the Mahabharata: A Story, A Philosophical Perspective, and an Admonishment (2002) (1)
The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism (2011) (1)
The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals (review) (2005) (1)
Jainism: The Good Life and the Transcendence of Death (2014) (1)
Religious Experience and Yoga (2019) (1)
Sources for the Study of Jaina Philosophy: A Bibliographic Essay (2000) (1)
Dharma and ecology of Hindu communities: sustenance and sustainability. By Pankaj Jain. Farnham, Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2011. 213 pages (2014) (0)
Ecologies of Human Flourishing. Edited by Donald K. Swearer and Susan Lloyd McGarry . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 214. $23.95. (2013) (0)
Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self. (1999) (0)
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History. By Andrew Nicholson (2012) (0)
Devotion in Jain song and poetic narrative (2019) (0)
Peace, War, and Violence in Hinduism (2011) (0)
Hinduism: Many Paths, Many Births (2014) (0)
The Bhagavad Gita (1979) (0)
Hare Krishna Transformed, by E. Burke Rochford (2009) (0)
Yoga and the Gita: Isvara-Pranidhana and Bhakti (2005) (0)
Reflections in the Mirror of Religion (2000) (0)
The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Consciousness . By Panikkar Raimon. Edited by Eastham Scott. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. xv + 160 pages. $24.95. (1995) (0)
Forum on Religion and Ecology Hinduism and Ecology Bibliography (2012) (0)
JEWISH AND HINDU PERSPECTIVES ON DIGNITY: (2020) (0)
Ecology in Hinduism (2011) (0)
Saivism in the Diaspora: Contemporary Forms of Skanda Worship. By Ron Geaves . London: Equinox Press, 2007. viii + 312 pages. $100.00 cloth. (2011) (0)
Healing Breath: Zen Spirituality for a Wounded Earth. By Habito Ruben L. F.. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. xv + 166 pages. $14.95 (paper). (1995) (0)
A Response to Francis X. Clooney (2011) (0)
Hare Krishna Transformed (2009) (0)
Brahmā Vihāra, Emptiness, and Ethics (2010) (0)
Studies 1-1-1989 Action Oriented Morality in Hinduism (2017) (0)
Dennis Hudson / Thoughts on the Bhagavad-gita in its Epic Context 65 (1996) (0)
Can One Size Fit All? Indic Perspectives on the Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions (2003) (0)
Hinduism and Ecology Conference Participants and Abstracts (2011) (0)
Sacrifi ce and Sustainability (2008) (0)
Death Teaches Us About Life (2005) (0)
Religious Experience and Scientific Paradigms: Proceedings of the IASWR Conference, 1982 (1985) (0)
THE CONCEPT OF WILL (PAURUSA) IN THE YOGAVASISTHA (1980) (0)
Jainism: The Creed for All Times – By Dalpat Singh Baya (2009) (0)
Book Review: Hindu Perspectives on Evolution: Darwin, Dharma, and Design (2013) (0)
This book includes an excellent bibliography of literature in this newly emerging field. The Specter of Speciesism will be a standard reference for years to come, both for its content and its methodology. (2004) (0)
Purity and Diversity in the Yoga Traditions of Patanjali and Haribhadra (2003) (0)
Indic Traditions and Animals: Imitation, Reincarnation, and Compassion (2011) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Yoga and Meditation: Indoctrination or Integration of Body, Breath, and Emotions? (2020) (0)
Yoga: Classical (Pātañjala) (2021) (0)
Jain Dharma: The Eternal Law of Ahimsa (2017) (0)
Theology in the Jesuit University: Reassessing the Ignatian vision (1993) (0)
Duara, Prasenjit.The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future. Asian Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x+328 pp. (2016) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1999) (0)
Animals, Vegetarianism, and Nonviolence (2018) (0)
The Academic Study of Yoga in India (2020) (0)
Toward a Universal Theology of Religion . Edited by Swidler Leonard. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1987. viii + 256 pages. $19.95 (paper $9.95). (1989) (0)
Ethical Studies, Overview (Eastern) (2008) (0)
Ramachandra Guha: How Much Should a Person Consume? Environmentalism in India and the United States (2008) (0)
In Praise of Mother Earth : the Pṛthivī Sūkta of the Atharva Veda (2011) (0)
Jainism and Ecology Conference Participants and Abstracts (2014) (0)
Ecological Nonviolence and the Hindu Tradition (1990) (0)
The History of Vegetarianism and Cow-Veneration in India. By Ludwig Alsdorf. Translated from the German by Bal Patil. Revised by Nichola Hayton. (2011) (0)
ANTONIO T. DE NICOLÁS: POET OF ETERNAL RETURN (2014) (0)
Guru and Spiritual Direction (2003) (0)
Four New Works on the Mahābhārata (2020) (0)
Invoking Lakshmi: The Goddess of Wealth in Song and Ceremony . By Constantina Rhodes. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. xii, 279 pp. $23.95 (paper). (2011) (0)
Faith for Earth: A Call for Action, by David Hales, Kusumita Pedersen, Tatiana Brailovskaya, eds. (2021) (0)
Asian Religions, Ecology, and the Integrity of Nature (2011) (0)
Animal Ethics (2018) (0)
Dying and Death: Jaina Dharma Traditions (2006) (0)
Jaina ethics and moral philosophy (2017) (0)
"Foreword" from The Writings of Swami Sivananda: A Bibliographical Study (2007) (0)
Book Review of Jeffrey Hopkins's "Tantra in Tibet" & Alex Wayman's "Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real: Buddhist Meditation and the Middle View" (1981) (0)
Life All Around: Soul in Jainism (2013) (0)
DIGNITY:: A Hindu Perspective (2020) (0)
Predicaments for the Jesuit Educational Mission from the Past Three General Congregations (1993) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1999) (0)
Teilhard's Struggle: Embracing the Work of Evolution. By Kathleen Duffy SSJ. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019. xxiii + 148 pages. $20.00 (paper). (2020) (0)
World Religions: A Story Approach. By Biallas Leonard J.. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third, 1991. vii + 324 pages. $14.95 (paper). (1993) (0)
Reverence for All Life: Animals in the Jain Tradition (1999) (0)
Animal Ethics (2018) (0)
Introduction to part B: Buddhist and Jaina approaches to ethical decision making (2007) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Disciplines and Vows (Yamas and Vratas): How the Mystical Yields to the Ethical in Yoga and Jainism (2007) (0)
River of Compassion: A Christian Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. By Bede Griffiths. New York: Continuum, 1995. 328 pages. $14.95 (paper). (1997) (0)
Community, Violence, and Peace: Aldo Leopold, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Gautama the Buddha in the Twenty-First Century (review) (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
Book review (1985) (0)
Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion. Edited by Daniel C. Noel. New York: Crossroad, 1990. xiv + 214 pages. $19.95. (1994) (0)
A Jain Ethic for the End of Life (2019) (0)
The Practice of Modern Yoga: Sri Ramakrishna's Four Contributions (2011) (0)
Dharma and Gospel: Two Ways of Seeing (1986) (0)
Farewell Note from the Editor (2019) (0)
Sidhis in the Yogasūtra (2012) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1972) (0)
Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian. By Paul F. Knitter. Oxford: Oneworld/Oxford, 2009. xvii + 240 pages. $22.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
Dharma and Gospel: Two Ways of Seeing (ed. Rev. G. W. Houston) (1986) (0)
Sāṃkhya-yoga : proceedings of the IASWR Conference, 1981 (1983) (0)
Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions – By Ellison Banks Findly (2009) (0)
Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. By James McHugh. (2013) (0)

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