John E. Cort
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Indologist specialized in Jainism
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John E. Cort is an American indologist. He is a professor of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison University, where he is also Chair of the Department of Religion. He has studied Jainism and the history of Jain society over four decades, authored several books on Jainism, and is one of the editors of the forthcoming Brill Encyclopedia of Jainism. According to a review published in 2006 by Peter Flügel, the influence of the studies and publications of Cort on Jainism "have been immense", and in some respects dominated the field of Jain studies.
John E. Cort's Published Works
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Published Works
- Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India (2001) (47)
- Bhakti in the Early Jain Tradition: Understanding Devotional Religion in South Asia (2002) (36)
- Jains in the World (2001) (36)
- Singing the glory of asceticism: devotion of asceticism in Jainism (2002) (24)
- Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains (1993) (22)
- Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History (2010) (18)
- Genres of Jain history (1995) (15)
- Situating Darśan: Seeing the Digambar Jina Icon in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North India (2012) (15)
- jains, caste and hierarchy in north Gujarat (2004) (14)
- The Jain Knowledge Warehouses: Traditional Libraries in India (1995) (14)
- Models of and for the Study of the Jains (1990) (14)
- The Svetambar Murtipujak Jain Mendicant (1991) (13)
- Medieval Jaina Goddess Traditions (1987) (12)
- Open boundaries : Jain communities and cultures in Indian history (2000) (10)
- Art, Religion, And Material Culture: Some Reflections On Method (1996) (8)
- History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, CA. 150 BCE–100 CE – By Sonya Rhie Quintanilla (2008) (7)
- Sur's Ocean: Poems from the Early Traditions By Surdas. Edited by Kenneth E. Bryant. Translated by John Stratton Hawley. Cambridge, MA: Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 1072. $35.00. (2016) (7)
- The Intellectual Formation of a Jain Monk: A Śvetāmbara Monastic Curriculum (2001) (6)
- Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums Edited by Bruce M. Sullivan. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. xvi + 184, 40 illustrations in volume; 38 illustrations online. $23.99. (2016) (6)
- 2. Making it Vernacular in Agra: The Practice of Translation by Seventeenth-Century Jains (2015) (5)
- Desert temples : sacred centers of Rajasthan in historical, art-historical, and social context (2008) (5)
- AN EPITOME OF MEDIEVAL ŚVETĀMBARA JAIN LITERARY CULTURE A REVIEW AND STUDY OF JINARATNASŪRI'S LĪLĀVATĪSĀRA* (2009) (5)
- How Much Should a Person Consume? Environmentalism in India and the United States – By Ramachandra Guha (2007) (4)
- 24. Worship of Bell-Ears the Great Hero, a Jain Tantric Deity (2000) (4)
- Two ideals of the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jain layman (1991) (4)
- Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential – By Gene Sharp (2006) (3)
- Tantra in Jainism : The cult of Ghantākarn Mahāvir, the Great Hero Bell-Ears (1997) (3)
- The lives of the Jain Elders (1999) (3)
- The Gift of Food to a Wandering Cow: Lay-Mendicant Interaction Among the Jains (1999) (3)
- The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India. By ChristianLee Novetzke. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi + 402; figures. $65.00. (2018) (2)
- Jaina Epistemology, Including The Jaina Theory Of Error. By Jayandra Soni. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 2018. Pp. 81. Rs. 300. (2018) (2)
- IN DEFENSE OF ICONS IN THREE LANGUAGES THE ICONOPHILIC WRITINGS OF YAŚOVIJAYA (2010) (2)
- Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony – By Anthony J. Parel (2007) (2)
- Ardhakathanak: A Half Story – Translated by Rohini Chowdhury (2010) (2)
- Jejuri – Arun Kolatkar (2006) (2)
- Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle‐Class World – By Joanne Punzo Waghorne (2006) (2)
- Jain Identity and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century India (2019) (2)
- Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist (2003) (2)
- Histoire À Demi: Autobiographie D'un Marchand Jaina Du XVIIe Siècle. By Banārsīdās – Translated by Jérôme Petit (2012) (1)
- Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan. By Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli. AAR Religion, Culture, and History Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 369; figures. Cloth $99.00, paper $35.00. (2015) (1)
- Pilgrimage: the Sacred Journey – Edited by Ruth Barnes and Crispin Branfoot (2007) (1)
- Going to the Temple (2001) (1)
- Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume X, Jain Philosophy (Part I) – Edited by Dalsukh Malvania and Jayendra Soni (2008) (1)
- Global India Circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History – By Richard H. Davis (2010) (1)
- Ideologies and Realms of Value (2001) (1)
- Remembrance and Celebration (2001) (1)
- ‘This Is How We Play Holī’ (2018) (1)
- People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India. By David L. Haberman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 239; illustrations. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $35.00. (2014) (1)
- Ganga: A Journey Down the Ganges River – By Julian Crandall Hollick (2008) (1)
- Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh By Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels. Studies in Asian Art and Culture, Volume 4. Berlin: EB Verlag, 2015. Pp. 301; 20 plates (18 color); €45.00. (2016) (1)
- Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road – By Johan Elverskog (2011) (1)
- Framing the Jina (2009) (1)
- Gods Beyond Temples – Edited by Harsha V. Dehejia (2007) (1)
- Kabir: Ecstatic Poems – By Robert Bly (2006) (1)
- Mānatuṅgācārya aur unke Stotra@@@Anusandhān@@@Manatungacarya aur unke Stotra@@@Anusandhan (2000) (1)
- Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India – By Joseph Lelyveld (2012) (1)
- Culture and Circulation: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India Edited by Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Brill's Indological Library, 46. Pp. xii + 315. €125.00. (2016) (1)
- Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum – Edited by Pika Ghosh (2007) (1)
- Vividhatīrthakalpaḥ: Regards sur le lieu saint JainaVividhatirthakalpah: Regards sur le lieu saint Jaina (1999) (1)
- Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India – By Johannes Bronkhorst (2007) (0)
- The Oxford Hinduism Reader – Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Steitencron (2010) (0)
- Elements of Jaina Geography: The of Haribhadra Sūri Critically Edited and Translated with the Commentary of PrabhāNanda SūRi – Edited by Frank Van Den Bossche (2008) (0)
- External Eyes on Jain Temple Icons (2014) (0)
- A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. By John Stratton Hawley. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 438; figures. $49.95. (2015) (0)
- History, Scripture and Controversy in a Medieval Jain Sect (2007) (0)
- Transforming Tradition: Cultural Essays in Honour of Mukund Lath. Edited by Monika Horstmann . Jaipur: Prakrit Bharati Academy; and New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 2013. Pp. viii + 136; illustrations. Rs. 495.00. (2014) (0)
- Jain Questions and Answers: (2020) (0)
- Situating Darśan: Seeing the Digambar Jina Icon in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North India (2012) (0)
- Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu‐Muslim” Encounter – By Finbarr B. Flood (2009) (0)
- Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey – By Philip Lutgendorf (2007) (0)
- Introduction: Icons, Idols, and Revolution (2009) (0)
- Acarya Umasvati's Tattvartha Sutra: Aspects of Reality in Jainism, Through the Eyes of a Scientist. Translation and commentary by Duli Chandra Jain . Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, 32. Mumbai: Hindi Granth Karyalay, 2012. Pp. 332. Rs. 600.00. (2013) (0)
- Jaina Epistemology in Historical and Comparative Perspective – Edited by Piotr Balcerowicz (2010) (0)
- Studies in Nirgrantha Art and Architecture. By M. A. Dhaky. Shresthi Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Series, 5. Ahmedabad: Sambodhi Sansthan, 2012. Pp. xiv + 353; 174 figures. Rs. 3,000. (2015) (0)
- Postmodern Gandhi and other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home – By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (2007) (0)
- Svarupa Sambodhana: Right Instruction on the Nature of the Soul – By Acarya Akalanka (2011) (0)
- Installing absence? The consecration of a Jina image (2017) (0)
- Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300–1600. By Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 395; figures. Rs. 2065.00. (2015) (0)
- Religion, the Environment, and Global Modernity in the Land of Krishna: A Review Essay of Three Recent Books (2022) (0)
- From Chant to Script. By Winand M. Callewaert. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2013. Pp. viii + 255. Rs. 600.00. (2014) (0)
- South Asia (1997) (0)
- Jaina Painting and Manuscript Culture: In Memory of Paolo Pianarosa Edited by Julia A. B. Hegewald. Studies in Asian Art and Culture, 3. Berlin: EB Verlag, 2015. Pp. 421; 100 color plates. €78.00. (2016) (0)
- The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence. By Faisal Devji. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 213. $24.95. (2013) (0)
- Dhyanabattisi: 32 Steps to Self‐Realisation – By Banārasīdās (2010) (0)
- The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid. Collection Indologie, 125. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry and Paris: École française d'Extrême‐Orient, 2014. Pp. xiv + 366; illustrations. €43.00. (2015) (0)
- Writing the Mughal World: Studies on Culture and Politics. By Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. (2013) (0)
- Jaina Studies: Proceedings of Dot 2010 in Marburg, Germany. Edited by Jayandra Soni . New York: Aditya Prakashan, 2012. Pp. x + 221; illustrations. Rs. 875.00. (2012) (0)
- The Death of Sacred Texts: Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions – Edited by Kristina Myrvold (2011) (0)
- Ratnakaraṇḍaka Śrāvakācāra – By Samantabhadra. Edited and translated by Willem Bollée (2012) (0)
- Songs of Kabir – Translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Preface by Wendy Doniger (2011) (0)
- Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories, by Neelima Shukla-Bhatt (2016) (0)
- Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism – By David Cortright (2007) (0)
- La Flûte de L'Infini. By Kabîr. Translated by André Gide and Henriette Mirabaud‐Thorens. Edited by Jean‐Claude Perrier . Paris: Èditions Gallimard, 2012. Pp. 190. €8.00. (2013) (0)
- Gifting and Grace (2001) (0)
- Yamuna Walk. Photographs by Atul Bhalla. With an essay, “22km: A Journey into the Present,” by Maliha Noorani . New York: Sepia Eye and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. Pp. 190; illustrations. $50.00. (2012) (0)
- Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India By Linda Hess. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 467, 14 figures. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $39.95. (2016) (0)
- The Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in India: Theory and Practice. Edited by Iwo Shima , Teiji Sakata , and Katsuyuki Ida . Japanese Studies on South Asia, 8. New Delhi: Manohar, 2011. Pp. 299. Rs. 750.00. (2013) (0)
- Jaina Studies: Select Papers Presented In The “Jaina Studies” Section At The 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, and The 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, Japan. Edited by Nalini Balbir and Peter Flügel. New Delhi: DK Publishers, 2018. (2018) (0)
- Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions – Edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (2007) (0)
- Nirgranth Aitihasik Lekh-Samuccay (2004) (0)
- Faculty Editorial Board (2016) (0)
- Idols and a History of Corruption (2009) (0)
- Book reviews (2005) (0)
- Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties. By Crispin Paine. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 144; illustrations. $29.95. (2013) (0)
- Jaipur 1778: The Making of a King. By Monika Horstmann. Khoj: A Series of Modern South Asian Studies, 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. x + 212; illustrations. €58.00. (2014) (0)
- Conclusion: Framing the Jina (2009) (0)
- Peter Flügel and Olle Qvarnström (eds): Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies.) xii, 257 pp. London: Routledge, 2015. £90. ISBN 978 1 138 83989 2. (2016) (0)
- Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology – By Anna A. Śla̧czka (2007) (0)
- The Lifetime “Living Lord” Icon of Mahavira: Anxiety about the Authenticity of Icons (2009) (0)
- The Rite of Veneration of Jina Images (2020) (0)
- An old tree living by the river : poems of Bhartr̥hari (1983) (0)
- Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India. By Tamara I. Sears. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 284; figures and illustrations. $75.00. (2015) (0)
- The Religious Ideology of the Indian Householder (1989) (0)
- The Jain Saga – Edited by Muni Samvegayashvijay (2010) (0)
- Babb, Lawrence A. Understanding Jainism. Edinburgh: Dunedin, 2015. 176 pp. $22.00 (paper). (2017) (0)
- Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women – Edited and translated by Carolyne Wright (2009) (0)
- Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India – By Rebecca M. Brown (2011) (0)
- The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods – By Michael Willis (2010) (0)
- A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival: Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi – Translated by Richard H. Davis (2010) (0)
- Book Review:Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women Padmanabh S. Jaini (1992) (0)
- Jaina Studies – By Colette Caillat and Nalini Balbir (2008) (0)
- Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Maṇḍaḷ Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion. By M. Whitney Kelting. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xx+268. $49.95 (Cloth). (2003) (0)
- The Inevitability of Tangible Form: A Natural Theology of Icons (2009) (0)
- La voie jaina [The Jain way] By N. Shântâ. Paris: O.E.I.L., 1985. 601 pp. Fr 250. (1989) (0)
- Hawley’s Sūr—and Beyond: A Review Article of Recent Publications (and More) by John Stratton Hawley (2020) (0)
- The Wilderness Debate Rages on: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate – Edited by Michael P. Nelson and J. Baird Callicott (2010) (0)
- The Archaeology of Jina Images (2009) (0)
- Gandhi’s Experiments with Truth: Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi – Edited by Richard L. Johnson (2007) (0)
- Lumière de l'Absolu . By Yogīndu. Translated by Nalini Balbir and Colette Caillat. Paris: Éditions Payot et Rivages, 1999. 191 pp. (2001) (0)
- Images of the World: Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture – By T. N. Madan (2007) (0)
- Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism – By Andy Rotman (2009) (0)
- A Cosmos Filled with Eternal Icons: Icons, Cosmology, Mandalas, and Scripture (2009) (0)
- Gujarati Communities Across the Globe: Memory, Identity and Continuity. Edited by Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukadam . Stoke-on-Trent, UK: Trentham Books, 2012. Pp. 175. £22.99. (2013) (0)
- Jains and Jainism in Patan (2001) (0)
- Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems – By Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield (2006) (0)
- Early Asceticism in India: Ājīvikism and Jainism By Piotr Balcerowicz. Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 368, 43 b/w illustrations. $145.00. (2016) (0)
- The Ideology of the Path to Liberation (2001) (0)
- The Temple in South Asia – Edited by Adam Hardy (2008) (0)
- Tales of Atonement – Edited by Willem Bollée (2010) (0)
- Ācārya Prabhācandra's Tattvārtha‐Sūtra. Hindi translation by Jaykumar Jalal . English translation by Anish Shah. Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, 20. Mumbai: Hindi Granth Karyalay, 2012. Pp. 64. Rs. 30.00. (2013) (0)
- Book reviews and notices (1987) (0)
- Clothing Gandhi’s Nation: Homespun and Modern India – By Lisa Trivedi (2007) (0)
- Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India – By Allison Busch (2012) (0)
- Building Communities in Gujarāt: Architecture and Society During the Twelfth Through Fourteenth Centuries – Alka Patel (2006) (0)
- The Memory of Love: Sūrdās Sings to Krishna – Translated by John Stratton Hawley (2010) (0)
- The Spread of Icons in Our World (2009) (0)
- Hawley’s Sūr—and Beyond: A Review Article of Recent Publications (and More) by John Stratton Hawley (2020) (0)
- Book reviews (2003) (0)
- Book reviews and notices (1972) (0)
- Ishtopadesha – By Pujyapada. Translated to Gujarati by Pravina Mehta. Translated to English by Manish Modi (2012) (0)
- Eastern religions come to western pennsylvania university museum and kipp gallery, indiana museum of pennsylvania (2006) (0)
- Forging a Region: Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500 – By Samira Sheikh (2012) (0)
- Jainism: The World of Conquerors – Natubhai Shah (2006) (0)
- Hindu and Jain Mythology of Balarama: Change and Continuity in an Early Indian Cult – By Lavanya Vemsani (2008) (0)
- Pārśvacaritram: The Life of pārśva – By Ācārya GuṆabhadra (2010) (0)
- Escaping the World: Women Renouncers Among Jains. By Manisha Sethi. New Delhi: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xxvi + 240. Rs. 695.00. (2013) (0)
- The Story of Paesi : Soul and Body in Ancient India: A Dialogue on Materialism; Text, Translation, Notes and Glossary (2003) (0)
- The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Devi Prasad (2014) (0)
- On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre‐ World – Edited by Doris Meth Srinivasan (2008) (0)
- Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art – By Kajri Jain (2008) (0)
- Caste in India – By Diane P. Mines (2010) (0)
- Provincial Hinduism: Religion and Community in Gwalior City , by Daniel Gold. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii + 292 pp., 53 figs., $99.00 (hb), $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780190212483 (hb), 9780190212490 (pb) (2017) (0)
- India Before Europe – By Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot (2007) (0)
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