Jeffery D. Long
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Education and career
Long graduated with a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1991. During his time at Notre Dame, he converted from Catholicism to Hinduism, as later informed his work. He received his MA and PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1993 and 2000, respectively. His PhD thesis was titled Plurality and Relativity: Whitehead, Jainism, and the Reconstruction of Religious Pluralism. He began work at Elizabethtown College in 2000.
Long has authored four books on Hinduism and Jainism. He was a consultant to the Hindu American Foundation during its lawsuit against the California Board of Education.
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Books
- Long, Jeffery D. (January 23, 2007). A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781845112738 – via Google Books.
- Long, Jeffery D. (2009). Jainism: An Introduction. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-4416-3839-7. OCLC 608555139.
- Long, Jeffery D. (September 9, 2011). Historical Dictionary of Hinduism. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7960-7.
- Long, Jeffery D. (2020). Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-4845-7. OCLC 1159617533.
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