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Lawrence A. Babb

Lawrence A. Babb is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts.  He has done field research in central, northern, and western India on both Hindu and Jain communities.  His most recent book is Alchemies of Violence: Myths of Identity and the Life of Trade in Western India (2004).

Michael W. Meister

Michael W. Meister holds the W. Norman Brown Professorship of South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in the History of Art and South Asia Studies Departments.  He has been editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, Discourses of Siva, Making Things in South Asia, and other volumes and authored numerous articles on architecture and iconology.  He is currently working on a book, Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan.

John E. Cort

John E. Cort is Professor of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison university in Granville, Ohio.  He is the author of Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India (2001), as well as several dozen articles on the Jains.  He is currently finishing a book on Jain narratives of icons and iconoclasm.