Name: Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion
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Author: M. Whitney Kelting
ISBN: 9780195140118

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Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion

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Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

M. Whitney Kelting

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0195140117

ISBN13

9780195140118

Edition No.

Synopsis "Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion "

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.

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