Contemplative Studies & Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration

Synopsis

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as well as the Jain hermeneutical perspectives, which are employed in understanding its rich diversity. The volume illustrates a complex and nuanced understanding of the multifaceted category of Jain religious thought and practice. It offers a rare intrareligious dialogue within Jain traditions and at the same time, significantly broadens and enriches the field of Contemplative Studies to include an ancient, ascetic, non-theistic tradition. Meditation, yoga, ritual, prayer are common to all Indic spiritual traditions. By investigating these diverse, yet overlapping, categories one might obtain a sophisticated understanding of religious traditions that originally emerged in South Asia. Essays in this book demonstrate how these forms of praxis in Jainism, and the philosophies that anchor those practices, are interrelated, and when brought into dialogue, help to foster new tools for understanding a complex and variegated tradition such as Jain Dharma. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of religious and theological studies, contemplative studies, Jain studies, Hindu studies, consciousness studies, Yoga studies, Indian philosophy and religion, sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and South Asian studies, as well as general readers interested in the topic.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000918335

Related ISBNs:

9781003365624, 9781032430768, 9781032392660

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/31/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Cogen Bohanec, Purushottama Bilimoria, and Rita D. Sherma

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Philosophy

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Purushottama Bilimoria

Edited by:

Cogen Bohanec

Edited by:

Rita D. Sherma