Askese und Devotion: Das rituelle System der Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jaina. Band I-II.
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 24710
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Röll Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783897545489
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 1227 page monograph, a result of 30 years of research, is in two volumes. It offers both a comprehensive historical and ethnographic study of an important Jaina sect, and addresses theoretical debates in comparative sociology and philosophy. As a case study the work documents in great detail the religious history, literature, beliefs, institutional structures and practices of the Terāpanth Jaina mendicant order and its followers, while its overall aim is the presentation of a new theoretical approach to the study of Indic religious traditions from the dual perspectives of social systems theory and of the theory of communicative action.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- The two-part monograph Asceticism and Devotion: The Ritual System of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jaina is based on fieldwork and archival research mainly conducted in Rajasthan 1992-93, supplemented by subsequent research. It analyses history, philosophy, organisation, ritual system, and influence of an orthodox Jaina mendicant order that rejects image-veneration, and, from 1949 onward pursues, a modernist agenda. Focusing on an individual Jaina sect, Jainism as a lived religion is analysed here for the first time as an dynamic social system that reproduces its elements self-referentially through selective networks of actions and communications connecting itinerant mendicants and devotees.