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Dr Will Johnson 


Books

  • ‘From ontology to taxonomy: the Jaina colonization of the universe’ in Proceedings of Shivdasani Categories Conference (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies: Ashgate) (In Press)
  • The Bhagavad Gita (A New Translation with an Introduction and Notes) (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford University Press: Oxford (1994) ISBN 019-282952-1 (120 pp)
  • Reissued with new Bibliography 2004 ISBN 019-283581-5 
  • Harmless Souls: Karmic Bondage and Religious Change in Early Jainism Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi (1995) ISBN 81-208-1309-x (355 pp)
  • The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night (A New Verse Translation with an Introduction and Notes) (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford University Press: Oxford (1998) ISBN 019-282361-2 (196 pp)
  • The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kålidåsa (including 'Sakuntala in the Mahabharata') (A New Verse Translation with an Introduction and Notes) (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford University Press: Oxford (July 2001) ISBN 019-283911-x (183 pp)
  • Mahabharata Book Three: The Forest Volume Four (A New Translation with an Introduction and Notes) (Clay Sanskrit Library) New York University Press: New York (2005) ISBN 0-8147-4278-5
  • A Dictionary of Hinduism Oxford University Press: Oxford (2009) ISBN 978-0-19-861025-0 (hardback) (400 pp);  (2010) ISBN 978-0-19-861026-7 (paperback) (400 pp)

Book Contracted

  • The Oxford Handbook of Hindu Literature (Oxford University Press) ed. (with James Hegarty) and contributor.

Contributions To Books

  • 'Theravada Buddhism in South-East Asia', The World's Religions (ed. S. Sutherland et al.) Routledge: London (1988) pp.726-738 ISBN 0 415 00324 5
  • Reprinted in The World's Religions: The Religions of Asia (ed. F. Hardy) Routledge: London (1990) pp.194-206 ISBN 0 415 05815 5
  • 'Buddhist Society of India', 'Buddhists in India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura & Mizoram)', 'Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha (Calcutta)', 'Chittagong Buddhist Association (Theravada)', 'Digambara Jainas', 'Irani Zoroastrians', 'Jainas', 'Miscellaneous Jaina Entries', 'Parsis', 'Svetambara Jainas', 'Tibetan Buddhist Groups in India', 'Zoroastrians', Contemporary Religions: A World Guide (ed. Ian Harris, et al.) Longman: London (1993) ISBN 0-582-08695-7 (approximately 12 pp in total)
  • 'Buddhist Society of India', Digambara Jainas', 'Irani Zoroastrians', 'Jainas', 'Parsis', 'Svetambara Jainas', 'Zoroastrians' reprinted in Longman Guide to Living Religions (ed. Ian Harris, et al.) Longman: London (1995) ISBN 0-582-25297-0
  • 'Transcending the World: Moksa and the Bhagavadgita' in The Fruits of Our Desiring: The Ethics of the Bhagavadgita for Our Times (ed. Julius Lipner) Bayeux Arts Inc.: Calgary, 1997, ISBN 1 8962093 0 0, 13pp.
  • 'Kundakunda, two standpoints, and the socio-religious function of anekantavada' in Approaches to Jain Studies: Philosophy, Logic, Ritual and Symbols (eds. N.K. Wagle & O. Qvarnstrom) University of Toronto Centre for South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies Papers No. 11, 1999, ISBN 1-895214-19-X, pp. 101-112.
  • 'Knowledge and Practice in the Jaina Religious Tradition', in Jain Doctrine and Practice: Academic Perspectives (ed. Joseph T. O'Connell) University of Toronto Centre for South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies Papers No. 13, 2000, ISBN 1-895214-23-8, pp. 18-49.
  • ‘The "Jina Experience": A Different Approach to Jaina Image Worship' in Jainism and Early Buddhism: Essays in Honor of Padmanabh S. Jaini  (ed. Olle Qvarnstrom),Asian Humanities Press: Fremont, California (2003), pp. 217-230.
  • ‘Making Sanskritic or Making Strange?  How Should We Translate Classical Hindu Texts?’ in Translation and Religion: Holy Untranslatable? (ed. Lynne Long) Multilingual Matters: Clevedon. (2005), pp. 65-74.

Journal Articles

  • 'Activity and Karmic Influx in Umasvati's Tattvartha Sutra', Journal of Pali and Buddhist Studies (Society for the Study of Pali and Buddhist Culture), Aichigakuin University, Japan, Vol. 4, May 1991, pp.111-121 ISSN 0914-8604
  • 'The Religious Function of Jaina Philosophy: Anekantavada Reconsidered', Religion (1995) 25, 41-50 ISSN 0048-721X
  • 'Are Jaina Ethics Really Universal?', International Journal of Jaina Studies (IJJS), Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, Vol. 2 No.4, October 2006 18 pp. ISSN: 1748-1074, http://www.soas.ac.uk/ijjs/index.html

Contributions To Electronic Media

  • 'Bhagavadgita', 'Jainism', 'Krishna', Mahavira', 'Shaivism', 'Shiva', 'Vaishnavism', 'Vishnu', 'Vivekananda', for Microsoft Encarta 96 (CD ROM Encyclopaedia), World English Edition, 1995 (approximately 6000 words)

Newspaper Article

  • 'Role of religion in mosque riots', Western Mail, Tuesday December 8 1992, p.11

Newspaper Other

  • A verse from the translation of The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa (see above) reprinted as ‘The Weekly Poem’ in The Independent, 10/7/01, p.11

Reviews

  • 'The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society', M. Carrithers & C. Humphrey (eds.), Sociology: The Journal of the British Sociological Association Vol. 25, No.4 (November 1991) pp.740-741
  • 'Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata', Nicholas Sutton, Religion, 2001.
  • The Four Hundred Songs of Love and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from the Classical Tamil: The Purananuru Canadian Review of Contemporary Literature, 2004.