Singing to the Jinas
Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion
$186.39
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2001
Summary
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. In this fieldwork-based study, Whitney Kelting attempts to reconcile these women’s understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in the existing scholarship. Jain women, she shows, both acceptand rewrite the idealized r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780195140118 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0195140117 |
| Author: | M. Whitney Kelting |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 152mm x 31mm |
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“Kelting has written an exhilarating book that represents a model for any type of research involving both texts and field observation. The vividness of her descriptions, enhanced with photographs and English versions of stavans whose effectiveness is in no way diminished by translation, is such that on occasion I felt myself to be participating in an actual mandal performance… . This fine book should appeal to a wide scholarlyconstituency: Those interested in ritual and the relationship between women and religion in South Asia in particular will find much to engage them.”–Journal of the American Academy of Religion
About The Author
M. Whitney Kelting
M. Whitney Kelting is at St. Lawrence University.
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