Engaged Jainism

Engaged JainismExplores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds. The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary cohort of academics and practitioners explore the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worldshistorically, philosophically, philologically, and anthropologically. Following

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