| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 232 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Currents of Encounter: Studies In Interreligious and Intercultural Relations,
0923-6201 ;
volume 55
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Currents of encounter ; v. 55.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 religions, has managed to both adapt and preserve its identity across time through its inherently dialogical outlook. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources and original research in India, Barbato analyses the encounters between Jains and non-Jains in the classical, colonial and global context. Jain Approaches to Plurality offers a comprehensive introduction to anekāntavāda as a non-Western resource for understanding plurality and engaging in dialogue. "Building upon earlier work in this field without simply reduplicating it, Melanie Barbato's work delves deeply into the question of the relevance of Jain approaches to religious and philosophical diversity to contemporary issues of inter-religious dialogue, and dialogues across worldviews more generally. (...) This work is a most welcome contribution to the conversation." - Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College . April 2017. Author of Jainism: An Introduction . |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anekāntavāda.
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Anekāntavāda. |
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Jaina philosophy.
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Jaina philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barbato, Melanie. Jain approaches to plurality. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004339309 (DLC) 2017031572 |
| ISBN |
9004276769 (electronic book) |
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9789004276765 (electronic book) |
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9789004339309 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
14885310 |
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