Singing to the Jinas. Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion.
by KELTING, M. WHITNEY
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New York.: Oxford University Press.. 2001.. xvi + 268pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, dustjacket. "The Jain community relies 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 accept and rewrite the idealized roles received from religious texts, practices, and social expectation, according to which female religiosity is a symbol of Jain perfection. Jain women's worship shows us a Jainism focused more on devotion than on philosophy. With rituals structured around singing hymns, Jain women negotiate hybrid theologies that sometimes conflict with normative Jainism. Singing to the Jinas describes these women's interpretations of their religion, not as folklore or popular religion, but as a theology that recreates Jainism in a form which honors their own participation." Publisher's description. .
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- Asia Bookroom (AU)
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- Title
- Singing to the Jinas. Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion.
- Author
- KELTING, M. WHITNEY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195140117
- ISBN 13
- 9780195140118
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 2001.
- Keywords
- Asia, India, Jainism, Religion, South Asia, Women's Studies
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