Studies in Jaina History and Culture: Disputes and Dialogues

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Peter Flügel
Routledge, Feb 1, 2006 - Religion - 496 pages

The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies.

Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged throughout its long history. The focus of the book is the discourse concerning orthodoxy and heresy in the Jaina tradition, the question of omniscience and Jaina logic, role models for women and female identity, Jaina schools and sects, religious property, law and ethics. The internal diversity of the Jaina tradition and Jain techniques of living with diversity are explored from an interdisciplinary point of view by fifteen leading scholars in Jaina studies. The contributors focus on the principal social units of the tradition: the schools, movements, sects and orders, rather than Jain religious culture in abstract.

Peter Flügel provides a representative snapshot of the current state of Jaina studies that will interest students and academics involved in the study of religion or South Asian cultures.

 

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Preface
The Later Fortunes of Jamāli
The Dating of the Jaina Councils Do scholarly presentations reflect
The JainMīmāṃsā Debate on Omniscience
Why Must There be an Omniscient in Jainism?
Implications of the BuddhistJaina Dispute Over the Fallacious
Restrictions and Protection Female Jain renouncers
Religious Practice and The Creation of Personhood Among Śvetāmbar
Rethinking Religious Authority A perspective on the followers
Taraṇ Svāmī and the Tāraṇ Svāmī Panth
Peter Flügel
Architectural Sculptural and Religious Change A new interpretation
Jaina Law as an Unofficial Legal System
Ahiṁsā and Compassion in Jainism
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Thinking Collectively About Jain Satīs The uses of Jain satī name lists

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Peter Flügel is currently at the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has published extensively on the history and ethnography of contemporary Jain schools and sects, Jain stupas, Jaina-Vaisnava syncretism, and the social history of the Jain tradition.

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