Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain DevotionOxford University Press, 02.08.2001 - 288 Seiten While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily 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. This volume 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. |
Inhalt
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Chapter 5 Daily Worship Improvisation and Individual Devotion | 108 |
Chapter 6 Formal Puj257s and Stavan Repertoires | 138 |
Chapter 7 Expertise Prestige and Authority | 164 |
Chapter 8 Laywomens Authority and Jain Theology | 192 |
Notes | 205 |
Glossary | 235 |
Bibliography | 243 |
Index | 255 |
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Seite 10 - Mahavlr's birthday is on the fourteenth day (of the dark fortnight) of the month of...
Seite 206 - An urban agglomeration is defined as the population contained within the contours of the contiguous territory inhabited at urban levels of residential density without regard to administrative boundaries.
Seite 65 - Fill the flute of our life with the miraculous tunes of radiant faith. Kindle the light of true knowledge in our minds and dispel the dense darkness from our minds. O mother! Show us the right path of life, so that at anytime, we may not wander blindly, aimlessly; and so that we may not forget or lose our way.
Seite 9 - Much of the Jain textual tradition is concerned with the workings of karma and the ways to avoid the accrual of karma and to destroy karma that has already bound with one's soul. Contemporary Jains speak of karma in the language of the path of spiritual liberation (moksa-marg), particularly when explaining the workings of moksa itself.
Seite vii - Circle), it was an entrance into many such circles where women order their worlds — not a place where women go when excluded from male activities or a space to which women are resigned, but a chosen space at the center of various women's communities.
Seite 9 - The mendicants follow a strict regimen of asceticism modeled (more or less) on the accounts of the lives of the Jinas and the instructions for mendicants attributed to Mahavir with the goal of attaining moksa (total spiritual release from worldly bonds) if not now, eventually.
Seite 8 - Jain worship includes much which is shared with other South Asian traditions: temple worship, domestic worship and rites, guru veneration, annual and monthly festivals linked to a lunar calendar, and pilgrimage.
Seite xvi - But a book — like a daughter — one day leaves your house. My hope is that she finds acceptance and brings happiness wherever she goes.
Seite 33 - States told me was central to women's practice, and which had not been included in any scholarship — not even in a cursory way in any study of Indian religion, devotionalism, Gujaratl literature, Jain studies, Women's Studies, or social sciences — despite its ubiquity.