The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in SocietyMichael Carrithers, Caroline Humphrey The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian society and religion out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly of Listeners: The Jains in Society is the first book to address the sociology of the Jains and to discuss 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 studies 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. |
Contents
JAIN IDEALS AND JAIN IDENTITY | 1 |
Conclusion | 3 |
a position paper | 5 |
some | 7 |
Michael Carrithers | 15 |
The role of the layman according to the Jain canon | 31 |
Women and the reproduction of the Jain community | 41 |
Local Jain communities | 69 |
Michael Carrithers | 165 |
Is there a popular Jainism? | 187 |
at the boundaries of the Jain | 201 |
Caroline Humphrey | 229 |
varieties of religious belief | 241 |
The foundations of community among southern | 261 |
The consecration of a new image | 291 |
Glossary and pronunciation | 295 |
some aspects | 75 |
rural informal | 109 |
A study of Jains in a Rajasthan town | 139 |
| 301 | |
| 309 | |
Other editions - View all
The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society Michael Carrithers,Caroline Humphrey No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
activities Agrawal ahimsā ascetics associations Bahubali belief Bharata bhaṭṭāraks Bhil brahmans Buddhist businessmen Carrithers cent century ceremonies Chandrapur chapter Cottam Ellis credit network cult Dasā deities dharma Digambar Digambar Jains distinct divisions doctrine economic example fair fast festival gacch Gujarat heterodoxy Hindu households important India informal credit institutions Jain castes Jain community Jain families Jain identity Jain religious Jain shopkeepers Jain temple Jaina Jaini Jainism Jaipur jāti jewellery Jina Kanji Swami Khandelwal king kingship laity laymen leaders Leicester loans Mahajan Mahāvīr Mahāvīr-ji Mahāvīra Mandi marriage medieval merchants moneylenders monks movement munis murti Muslim neo-orthodoxy non-Jains nyat organisations Oswals participation pawnbroking popular population Porwals practices pratikramana pūjā Rajasthan region religion Rishabhdeo ritual rural Sabha samāj Sangha sect sectarian sense Singhi Sirohi social society Somadeva Srimalis status sub-caste sub-sect Svetambar temple complex Tirthankar town trade traditional upāśraya Vaishnava village Visā vows women worship yakṣas