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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indologist specialized in Jainism (born 1953)}}<br />
{{About|the scholar of Indology|the Christian socialist author|John Cyrus Cort}}<br />
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'''John E. Cort''' (born 1953)<ref name="viaf">{{cite web|title=Cort, John E., 1953-|url=http://viaf.org/viaf/189475962/|publisher=VIAF|access-date=20 May 2017}}</ref> is an American indologist. He is a professor of Asian and Comparative Religions at [[Denison University]], where he is also Chair of the Department of Religion. He has studied [[Jainism]] and the history of Jain society over four decades,<ref>{{cite journal | last=Cort | first=John E. | title=Genres of Jain history | journal=Journal of Indian Philosophy | volume=23 | issue=4 | year=1995 | pages=469–506 | doi=10.1007/bf01880222 | s2cid=170717978 }}</ref><ref>JOHN E. CORT (1990), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23555632 MODELS OF AND FOR THE STUDY OF THE JAINS], Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Brill Academic, Vol. 2, No. 1 (spring 1990), pp. 42-71</ref> authored several books on Jainism,<ref>{{cite book|author=John E. Cort|title=Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZk-4HOMzsoC|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-803037-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=John Cort|title=Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDBpq23-0QoC |year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-973957-8}}</ref> and is one of the editors of the forthcoming Brill Encyclopedia of Jainism.<ref>[https://religion.osu.edu/events/john-cort-lecture John E. Cort (Denison), "The Jina as King or the Jina as Ascetic? Jain Concepts of Divinity"], Ohio State University</ref> According to a review published in 2006 by Peter Flügel, the influence of the studies and publications of Cort on Jainism "have been immense", and in some respects dominated the field of Jain studies.<ref>Peter Flügel (2006), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20181991 Jainism and Society], Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 69, No. 1 (2006), pp. 91-112</ref><br />
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Cort's studies have also included those on comparative Indology, such as a comparison of caste systems in Jainism and Hinduism.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1177/006996670403800104| title=Jains, caste and hierarchy in north Gujarat| journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology| volume=38| issue=1–2| pages=73–112| year=2004| last1=Cort| first1=John E.| s2cid=144487402}}</ref><br />
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Cort has a BA (1974) and MA (1982) in South Asian Studies from the [[University of Wisconsin]] and an AM (1984) and PhD (1989) from [[Harvard University]].<ref name="uni">{{cite web|title=John E. Cort|date=January 1992 |url=https://denison.edu/people/john-cort|publisher=Denison University|access-date=20 May 2017}}</ref><br />
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