The 2023 Annual Meetings in San Antonio, Texas, November 18–21, hosted by the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM), and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), is the world's largest gathering of scholars interested in the study of religion — AND Arihanta Institute will be well represented!

Our AI professors are presenting more than a dozen talks, papers, and panels with topics including: Engaged Jain Epistemology, Jain Veganism, Jain Yoga, Jainism and Sentient Rights, Jain Yoga Texts, and much more!

We've listed out the Arihanta Institute panels by Professor below, and for those interested in reading the full abstracts, you can head to the AAR Online Program Book, here.

Professor Christopher Jain Miller

Christopher Jain Miller, Arihanta Institute

Jain Veganism in Dialogue with Jain Speciesism: Clarifying Jain Intra-religious Dialogue as a Basis for Inter-religious Dialogue

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: Session 1- Food and Interreligious Dialogue: Jewish, Hindu, & Jain Perspectives

Christopher Jain Miller, Arihanta Institute

Engaged Jain Epistemology: Integrating Climate Science into the Science of the Jain Tradition

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: Session 2- Engaged Jainism

Christopher Jain Miller, Arihanta Institute (Presiding)

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: DANAM Annual Book Review Panel: Contemplative Studies in Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration; Rita Sherma, Purushottama Bilimoria and Cogen Bohanec, editors, Routledge Press, 2023

Christopher Jain Miller, Arihanta Institute

A New Jain(?) Yoga: Seven Cakras, ‘Seven Stages of Enlightenment’, the Buddha, and Mahavira meet the Berlin Wall

Jain Studies Unit and Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit

Theme: New Light on Jain Yoga: Philological, Anthropological, and Philosophical Insights

Christopher Jain Miller, Arihanta Institute

Prāṇāyāma and Pollution: Performing an Embodied Yoga Sacrifice in a Sacrifice Zone

Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit

Theme: Ethnographies of the Yoga Body

Professor Cogen Bohanec

Cogen Bohanec, Arihanta Institute

A Survey of Nonviolence, Food, and Animals in Hindu Literature

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: Session 1- Food and Interreligious Dialogue: Jewish, Hindu, & Jain Perspectives

Cogen Bohanec, Arihanta Institute

An Argument for Socially Engaged Jainism

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: Session 2- Engaged Jainism

Cogen Bohanec, Arihanta Institute

Pragmatism & Interfaith Dialogue in Jain Yoga Texts

Jain Studies Unit and Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit

Theme: New Light on Jain Yoga: Philological, Anthropological, and Philosophical Insights

Cogen Bohanec, Arihanta Institute (Respondent)

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: Session 2- Engaged Jainism

Cogen Bohanec, Arihanta Institute (Respondent)

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: DANAM Annual Book Review Panel: Contemplative Studies in Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration; Rita Sherma, Purushottama Bilimoria and Cogen Bohanec, editors, Routledge Press, 2023

Professor Jonathan Dickstein

Jonathan Dickstein, Arihanta Institute

Rejecting Species: Jainism and Sentient Rights

Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Theme: Session 2- Engaged Jainism

Jonathan Dickstein, Arihanta Institute

Love and Entanglement: The Consequential Vocabulary of Human-Animal Relations in South Asia

Animals and Religion Unit

Theme: Animals & Labor - Animals as Laborers

Jonathan Dickstein, Arihanta Institute

What Yoga Would Jesus Do?: The Relevance of Classical Yoga’s Theism for the Alternatively Religious

Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit and the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies

Theme: What is a "Christian Yoga?"

Jonathan Dickstein, Arihanta Institute (Presiding)

Jain Studies Unit and Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit

Theme: New Light on Jain Yoga: Philological, Anthropological, and Philosophical Insights