Jains in the world : religious values and ideology in India /John E Cort
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TextPublisher number: Technical Bureau India Pvt.Ltd. | ;E/261,Shastri Nagar Delhi-110052Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press , 2001.Description: xii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780199796649
- 294.4 COR
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The ideology of the path to liberation --
Jains and Jainism in Patan --
Going to the temple: how to worship god --
Gifting and grace: patterns of lay-mendicant interaction --
Holy asceticism --
Remembrance and celebration: the Jain religious year --
Ideologies and realms of value.
This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today
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