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Engaged Jainism: Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement

Engaged Jainism: Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement

Miller, Christopher Jain
Bohanec, Cogen

Hardcover

Series: SUNY Series in Religious Studies

General Eastern ReligionsJainismYoga

ISBN13: 9798855805710
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 1 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.

The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary cohort of academics and practitioners explore the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds-historically, philosophically, philologically, and anthropologically. Following the legacy of Engaged Buddhism, the groundbreaking volume edited by Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, this volume shows how Jain traditions become engaged in everyday life, puts Jain ideas in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, and examines the ways in which Jains have maintained Jain identity in their engagement with other religious traditions and cultural influences in the past and present. Across all of these disciplinary approaches, Jainism emerges as a dynamic, protean, and diverse tradition.

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