Jainism and Ecology
Nonviolence in the Web of Life
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2002
Summary
The twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism, which emphasizes nonviolence as the only true path leading to liberation, offers a worldview seemingly compatible with the goals of environmental activism. But can Jainism adopt a sociocentric environmentalism without compromising its own ascetic principles and spiritual tradition? How does traditional Jain cosmology view the natural world? How might a Jain ethical system respond to decisions regarding the development of dams, the prol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780945454342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0945454341 |
| Author: | Christopher Key Chapple |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm |
| Series: | Religions of the World and Ecology |
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Christopher Key Chapple
Christopher Key Chapple is Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University.
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