266 Pages
by
Routledge India
266 Pages
by
Routledge India
266 Pages
by
Routledge India
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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 been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur.
The volume foregrounds the primacy of ‘choice’ and... Read more
Glossary. Introduction 1. Theorizing Renunciation: Possibilities and Limitations 2. Nuns and Temptresses: Representing Women in Jainism 3. The Making of a Sadhvi: Claims and Counterclaims 4. Ethics of Care: Individual and the Institutional 5. Idealized Lives: Biographies of Two Iconic Nuns 6. Some Concluding Thoughts. Appendix. Bibliography. About the Author. Index
Biography
Manisha Sethi is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
