Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India

by JohnE.Cort (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $29.69

  This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today.