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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 328 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511896637
Content:
The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian Society and religion out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society addresses the sociology of the Jains and discusses the notion of the 'community' based on religious affiliation in India. Topics covered include Jain ideals and identity; women in the Jains community; popular Jainism; Jain reform and Jain identity in the UK. This collection is an important theoretical addition to the study of Indian society, which has previously focused mainly on caste and class politics as the fundamental social units. With much recent fieldwork providing unique information on the ethnography of the Jains, this study will prove indispensable to any scholar interested in this little-known but highly influential social group
Content:
Jains as a community : a position paper / Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey -- Jain ideals and Jain identity / Michael Carrithers -- Somadeva Suri and the question of Jain identity / Mukund Lath -- The role of the layman according to the Jain canon / K.R. Norman -- Women and the reproduction of the Jain community / Josephine Reynell -- Local Jain communities / Caroline Humphrey -- The Jain merchant castes of Rajasthan : some aspects of the management of social identity in a market town / Christine M. Cottam Ellis -- Jain shopkeepers and moneylenders : rural informal credit networks in south Rajasthan / J. Howard M. Jones -- A study of Jains in a Rajasthan town / N.K. Singhi -- Jains in the Indian world / Michael Carrithers -- The Digambara Jain warrior / Paul Dundas -- Is there a popular Jainism? / Padmanabh Jaini -- Fairs and miracles : at the boundaries of the Jain community in Rajasthan ; New Jain institutions in India and beyond / Caroline Humphrey
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Reform movements among Jains in modern India / Vilas Sangave -- Orthodoxy and dissent : varieties of religious belief among immigrant Gujariti Jains in Britain / Marcus Banks -- The foundations of community among southern Digambar Jains : an essay on rhetoric and experience / Michael Carrithers
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521365055
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521084802
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521365055
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511896637
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