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Jains in the World - Religious Values and Ideology in India (Paperback, New)
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Jains in the World - Religious Values and Ideology in India (Paperback, New)
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"There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in
this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the
contemporary religious world of Jain laity. It will serve for some
time as a paradigmatic monograph for future empirical studies of
Jain religious life." --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies
"Jains in the World is a significant and welcome ethnography of
contemporary Jains in western India by the most prominent scholar
of Jainism in North America. This book is a must for scholars of
South Asian religions and will provide scholars of Hindu traditions
fine grounding both in a central dialectic of Jain thought and in
contemporary Jain praxis." --International Journal of Hindu Studies
"A valuable addition to the literature on Jainism as a living
faith. Since it has the additional merits of being clearly written,
attractively illustrated, and free of unnecessary theoretical
baggage, it should serve as a good introduction to this tradition
for college students." --Journal of theAmerican Oriental Society
"A must-read for understanding, by and large, the ritual world of
the Jains. He has succeeded in proving that the concept of
well-being is as central to the Jains' moral universe as their more
entrenched pursuit of the goal of liberation of soul from karmic
bondage."--History of Religions
"An essential read for students and scholars of Jainism. . . . it
identifies and defines a realm of value in Jainism strongly alluded
to by recent scholarship, but which, until now, had not been
explicitly stated. For this reason Jains in the World will
doubtless prove to be a fundamental turning point in the
development of Jaina studies."-- The Journal of Religion
This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient
Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern
Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and
modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a
rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today.
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