Jainism

This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE.

This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields.

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields.

Examining the history and intellectual activity of the medieval Svetambara Jain renunciant order, the Tapa Gaccha, this book focuses on the consolidation by the Tapa Gaccha from the thirteenth century of its identity as the leading Svetambara order.

Examining the history and intellectual activity of the medieval Svetambara Jain renunciant order, the Tapa Gaccha, this book focuses on the consolidation by the Tapa Gaccha from the thirteenth century of its identity as the leading Svetambara order.

For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil.

For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil.

In the religious landscape of early medieval (c.

In the religious landscape of early medieval (c.

Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "e;Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration),"e; or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people-religious or not.

Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "e;Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration),"e; or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people-religious or not.

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis.

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis.

With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion.

With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion.

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled.

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled.

Jain is the term used for a person who has faith in the teachings of the Jinas ('Spiritual Victors').

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics.

The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world.

The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world.

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora.

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora.

This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice.

This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice.

The Jain community in India, though small in number, is very important in the economic and social life of the country.

The Jain community in India, though small in number, is very important in the economic and social life of the country.

Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent.

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other.

A compact and informative guide to the key tenets, rituals and history of the world's major faiths, now in a new easy-reference format.

Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history.

The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state.

John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India.

Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero.

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present.

While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge.

"e;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.

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India.

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India.

Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero.

John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India.

Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power.

Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power.

The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state.