Publications
Books
Bisschop, Peter C., Nirajan Kafle & Csaba Kiss. Śaiva Rites of Fasting and the Gift of Cattle: A Study in Purāṇic and Tantric Appropriation. A Critical Edition with Translation of Śivadharmaśāstra 10. Napoli: Unior Press, 2025.
Journal Issues
Bisschop, Peter C. & Elizabeth A. Cecil (eds.), PURANA Media 1 (2025).
Cecil, Elizabeth A. & Sonia Hazard. (eds.). Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, and Responsibility. Special Issue of Textual Cultures (17.2, 2024).
Articles
Adityan, Arya. ‘Avatāra as Embodied Practice: Narrative, Performance, Image.’ PURANA Media 1 (2025): 132-149.
Adityan, Arya. `Beyond Borders: Navigating Cultural Sensitivities in Presenting Tulu Ritual Objects in Western Museums.’ Museological Review 27 (2025): 72-88.
Bisschop, Peter C. `An Absence Made Present: The Sanskrit Correspondence of J. Ph. Vogel and Nityanand Shastri.’ Textual Cultures 17.2 (2024), 5-29.
Bisschop, Peter C. & Elizabeth A. Cecil. `Purāṇa as a Way of Worldmaking.’ PURANA Media 1 (2025): 1-18.
Cecil, Elizabeth A. `Building Belonging: Shaiva Temple Communities in South and Southeast Asia.’ in: Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha, Uthara Suvratan (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples: Materiality, Social History and Practice (London/New York: Routledge, 2023), 375-392.
Cecil, Elizabeth A. `Stone Works: The Religious Power of Lithic Media in Contemporary Cambodia.’ The Jugaad Project: Material Religion in Context 5.2 (2023).
Cecil, Elizabeth A. `Moving Mountains and Swallowing Seas: Śaiva Gurus as Ecological Agents in Early South and Southeast Asia.’ Ars Orientalis 54 (2024): 15-43.
Cecil, Elizabeth A. `Pūrṇavarman’s Prints: Environment and Inscription in Early West Java.’ Textual Cultures 17.2 (2024), 30-61.
Dokter-Mersch, Sanne. `A Śaiva Happy Ever After: Viṣṇu as Pāśupata Ascetic. Studies in the Skandapurāṇa X.’ Religions 13.12 (2022): 1-16.
Dokter-Mersch, Sanne. `Viṣṇu’s Cakra as Narrative Weapon in the Skandapurāṇa: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa XIV.’ Religions of South Asia 17.2 (2023): 164-182.
Dokter-Mersch, Sanne. `Orality in a World of Manuscripts: Reconstructing Purāṇic Composition, Preservation and Transmission on the Basis of the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa.’ Manuscript and Text Cultures 2.2 (2024): 201-223.
Kotler, Ayelet. `Retranslation in Mughal South Asia: The Impressive Failure of a Persian Panchatantra.’ Iranian Studies 57 (2024): 1-22.
Kotler, Ayelet. `The Persian Translation of Śivapurāṇa and Eighteenth-Century North Indian Śaivism.’ Journal of Hindu Studies. Advance Access Publication 30 January 2025.
Kotler, Ayelet. ‘Mythical and Historical Time in the Author Portrait of the Persian Puranic Translation Anandghan ‘Khwush’ (fl. 1790-1795).’ PURANA Media 1 (2025): 19-49.
Littunen, Olli Pekka Antero. `The Social Life of a Manuscript: Textual Networks from North India to Nepal and Beyond.’ Textual Cultures 17.2 (2024): 106-136.
Book Reviews
Bisschop, Peter C. `Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal, by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz.’ Indo-Iranian Journal 66.4 (2023), 385-390.
Bisschop, Peter C. `Religions of Early India: A Cultural History, by Richard Davis.’ Indo-Iranian Journal 68.2 (2025), 180-184.
Kotler, Ayelet. `India in the Persian World of Letters: Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists, written by Arthur Dudney.’ Mission Studies 42, 3 (2025): 513-514.
Kotler, Ayelet. `Krishna’s Mahabharatas: Devotional Tellings of an Epic Narrative, by Sohini Pillai.’ International Journal of Hindu Studies. Advance Access Publication 22 January 2026.
Littunen, Olli Pekka Antero. `Vedic Roots, Epic Trunks, Purāṇic Foliage: Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas, by Ivan Andrijanić and Sven Sellmer.’ Religions of South Asia 19.1 (2025): 112-114.
Suebsantiwongse, Saran. `Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya, by Silvia Schwarz Linder.’ Journal of Hindu Studies. Advance Access Publication 12 November 2025.
