The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society
by Edited by Michael Carrithers , Caroline HumphreyEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2008-10-14
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian Society and religion out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society addresses the sociology of the Jains and discusses 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 study 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.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | |
| List of contributors | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Jains as a community: a position paper | |
| Jain Ideals and Jain Identity | |
| Jain ideals and Jain identity | |
| Somadeva Suri and the question of | |
| Women and the reproduction of the Jain community | |
| Local Jain Communities | |
| Local Jain communities | |
| The Jain merchant castes of Rasthan: some aspects of the management of social identity in a market town | |
| Jain shopkeepers and moneylenders: rural informal credit networks in south Rajasthan | |
| A study of Jains in a Rajasthan town | |
| Jains In The Indian World | |
| Jains in the Indian world | |
| The Digambara | |
| Is there a popular Jainism? | |
| Fairs and miracles: at the boundaries of the Jain community in Rajasthan | |
| New Jain Institutions In India and Beyond | |
| New Jain institutions in India and beyond | |
| Reform movements among jains in modern India | |
| Orthodoxy and dissent: varieties of religious belief among immigrant Gujarati jains in Britain | |
| The foundations of community among southern Digambar Jains: an essay on rhetoric and experience | |
| Conclusion | |
| Glossary and pronunciation | |
| Select Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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