Monograph
2017 Jain Approaches to Plurality: Identity as Dialogue, Currents of Encounter, Brill, Leiden.
Edited works
2022 Interreligious Dialogue and Diplomacy, Special Issue of CrossCurrents.
2020 The Critical Religion Reader, edited together with Cameron Montgomery and Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, Dreamshare Press, Pembroke.
2018 Wege zum Digitalen Papsttum. Der Vatikan im Wandel Medialer Öffentlichkeit (Towards a digital papacy: the Vatican in the transformation processes of the public media landscape), edited together with Mariano Barbato and Johannes Löffler, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Articles and chapters
2023 “Being Jain – South Indian Art Meets Climate Ethics at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich”, forthcoming in CrossCurrents.
2022 “Bahubali and St. Francis: Approaches to Nonviolence and Ecology“, in Nagabharana, Felicitation Volume to Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah, herausgegeben von Pedarapu Chenna Reddy, Bluerose Publishers, Delhi.
2020a “‘Dear Hindu Friends’: official Diwali greetings as a medium for diplomatic dialogue”, Religion, 50:3, 353-371.
2020b „Mobilisierung jenseits des Kirchenvolks. Der Papst und der interreligiöse Dialog“ (Mobilisation beyond the congregation: the pope and interreligious dialogue), in Macht und Mobilisierung: Der politische Aufstieg des Papsttums seit dem Ausgang des 19.
Jahrhunderts, edited by Mariano Barbato and Stefan Heid, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 256-270.
2020c “’I Put No Stock in Consensus’: The Young Pope and the Progressive/Conservative Cleavage in Filmic Narrations of Papal Power”, in The Pope, the Public, and International Relations. Culture and Religion in International Relations, edited by Mariano Barbato, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 63-77.
2020d “Introduction: What is Critical Religion and Why Does It Matter?”, together with Cameron Montgomery and Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, in The Critical Religion Reader, edited together with Cameron Montgomery und Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, Dreamshare Press, Pembroke, 14-25.
2019a “Interreligious Art in the Light of Hindu and Buddhist Thought”, CrossCurrents, 68/3, March 2019, 336-351.
2019b “Different Interpretations of Anekantavada”, Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, March 2019, Issue 14, 30-31.
2019c “Anekāntavāda and Dialogic Identity Construction”, Religions 2019, 10, 642.
2018a “The Young Pope. Fiktionales Spiel mit päpstlicher Rede“ (The Young Pope: fictional play with papal speech“, in Barbato/Barbato/Löffler, Wege zum Digitalen Papsttum. Der Vatikan im Wandel Medialer Öffentlichkeit, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 173-196.
2018b “Jain Approaches to Religious Plurality”, Current Dialogue 60, Dec 2018, 3-10.
2018c “Interreligious Dialogue and Public Diplomacy: Word, Stage, Image”, in Perplexed Religion, edited by Míriam Díez Bosch, Alberto Melloni and Josep Lluís Micó Sanz, Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture, Universität Ramon Llull, Barcelona, 25-38.
2017a “Interreligious Resources for Pain-Management: Contributions from Hinduism and Christianity”, in Journal for Interreligious Studies, Issue 20, 03.2017.
2017b “Diplomatic Language in the Deepavali Messages of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue”, Review of Faith & International Affairs, Volume 15, Issue 4, 93-104.
2015a “Anekantavada and the Art of Argumentation”, in: Sanmati: Essays Felicitating Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah, herausgegeben von Luitgard Soni und Jayandra Soni, Sapna Book House, Bangalore, 59-66.
2015b “Jainism and the West: an Overview”, in: From Influence and Confluence to Difference and Indifference, edited by Mihaela Gligor, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, 175-205.
2014a “The Concept of Determinate and Indeterminate Perception“, in Münchner Indologische Zeitschrift II, 2014, 54-88.
2014b „Die Wahrheitsfrage der Religion in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft“ (The question of religious truth in science and society), together with Mariano Barbato, 25/2014, 23-26, in: Erwägen-Wissen-Ethik (EWE), 2014.
2013 „Pilgerschaft in den Internationalen Beziehungen“ (Pilgrimage in international relations), together with Mariano Barbato, Welt(ge)wissen/Forum Europahaus Burgenland, Nr. 23, Juni 2013, 30-34.
2010 „Übertreten geboten: Interreligiöse Kunst? Annäherung und Dialog“ (Interreligious Art? Reflection and dialogue), together with Martin Rötting, Introduction to the catalogue for the art exhibition Übertreten Geboten, München, 2010.
Book reviews
2022 Christian Hackbarth-Johnson and Ulrich Winkler (Hg.), Homo interreligiosus: Zur biographischen Verortung interreligiöser Prozesse bei Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010). Beiträge einer internationalen Fachtagung zu seinem 100. Geburtstag, Theologische Revue (forthcoming).
2021 Sugata Ray, 2019, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850, CrossCurrents, Vol. 71, No. 1.
2021 Alan Brill, Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter, Romanian Journal of Indian Studies, 2021, Vol. 1 No. 1.
2016 Sherry Fohr, 2015, Jainism: a Guide for the Perplexed, Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, Vol. 29 No. 2.
2010 Alka Saraogi, 2005, Umweg nach Kalkutta (A Calcutta Detour), Münchner Indologische Zeitschrift I, 2010, 290-292.
2009 Jonardon Ganeri, 2007, The Concealed Art of the Soul, Philosophy East & West.
Encyclopedia entries
2010a “Indian Philosophy 400-600”, World History Encyclopedia, ABC Clio, Santa Barbara.
2010b “Indian Philosophy 600-1000”, World History Encyclopedia, ABC Clio, Santa Barbara.
2010c “History of Indian Medicine 400-1000”, World History Encyclopedia, ABC Clio, Santa Barbara.
Blog contributions
2022 “Words that make a difference: An interview on diplomacy, poetry and interreligious dialogue" with Philip McDonagh, The Commons – April Online, December 12.
2021 “Understanding Hindu-Christian Relations: The World Council of Churches’ Approach”, Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, February 28.
2016 “Why is there still ‘interreligious dialogue’?”, Critical Religion Association blog. 2015 “Logic, Poetry and the Myth of Disenchantment”, Critical Religion Association blog.
2014 “Words don’t come easy – an example from Jaina studies”, Critical Religion Association blog.
2013 “Marian Apparitions – a Challenge to Established Categories”, Critical Religion Association blog.
Re-prints
2021 “Anekāntavāda and Dialogic Identity Construction”, published again (partly linked) in Jain Avenue Magazine: Voice of the Practitioners of Jain Dharma, Issue 6, January 2021, 7.
2020 “Logic, Poetry and the Myth of Disenchantment”, published again in The Critical Religion Reader, edited together with Cameron Montgomery and Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, Dreamshare Press, Pembroke, 27-31.
2020 “Words don’t come easy- an example from Jaina studies”, published again in The Critical Religion Reader, edited together with Cameron Montgomery and Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, Dreamshare Press, Pembroke, 146-149.
2019 “Diplomatic Language in the Deepavali Messages of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue”, published again in Modern Papal Diplomacy and Social Teaching in World Affairs, edited by Mariano Barbato, Robert Joustra and Dennis Hoover, Routledge, London, 93-104.
Podcast Interview
2019 “Inter-religious Diplomacy and Jain Plurality”, Classical Ideas Podcast, Episode 98.