Jain approaches to plurality : identity as dialogue /

Jain approaches to plurality : identity as dialogue /

In Jain Approaches to Plurality Melanie Barbato offers a new perspective on the Jain teaching of plurality ( anekāntavāda ) and how it allowed Jains to engage with other discourses from Indian inter-school philosophy to global interreligious dialogue. Jainism, one of the world's oldest religion...

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Main Author: Barbato, Melanie.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Currents of Encounter 55.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.

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Anekāntavāda.
Jaina philosophy.

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Call Number: B162.5

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Identity in Changing Times
  • Who are the Jains? A Community between Indian Tradition and Global Modernity
  • Jains in Inner-Indian Dialogue
  • Plurality in Modern Jain Dialogues
  • Jain Dialogic Identity - Then and Now.