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Jains in the World
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: John E. Cort
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religious world
The Jains
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Paul Dundas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-11-01 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas loo
Escaping the World
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Manisha Sethi
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-29 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has
Jains in the World
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: John E. Cort
Categories: Jainism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Based on field research in northern Gujarat as well as on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and modern vernacular religious literature, John Cort gives a round
Jainism
Language: en
Pages: 610
Authors: Helmuth von Glasenapp
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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The present book is one of the best and stimulating books ever written by scholars on Jainism. A glance at its contents will reveal the fact that Glasenapp has