Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion

by Jain Laywomen (Editor), M. Whitney Kelting (Author), Mary Whitney Kelting (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2001

  $237.59

  The Jain community relies on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge. This fieldwork-based study attempts to reconcile these women's understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in existing scholarship.