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This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of
the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth
of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms
of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as well as the
Jain hermeneutical perspectives, which are employed in
understanding its rich diversity. The volume illustrates a complex
and nuanced understanding of the multifaceted category of Jain
religious thought and practice. It offers a rare intrareligious
dialogue within Jain traditions and at the same time, significantly
broadens and enriches the field of Contemplative Studies to include
an ancient, ascetic, non-theistic tradition. Meditation, yoga,
ritual, prayer are common to all Indic spiritual traditions. By
investigating these diverse, yet overlapping, categories one might
obtain a sophisticated understanding of religious traditions that
originally emerged in South Asia. Essays in this book demonstrate
how these forms of praxis in Jainism, and the philosophies that
anchor those practices, are interrelated, and when brought into
dialogue, help to foster new tools for understanding a complex and
variegated tradition such as Jain Dharma. This book will be useful
to scholars and researchers of religious and theological studies,
contemplative studies, Jain studies, Hindu studies, consciousness
studies, Yoga studies, Indian philosophy and religion, sociology of
religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and South
Asian studies, as well as general readers interested in the topic.
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