Escaping the world: women renouncers among Jains
Introduction -- Theorising renunciation: possibilities and limitations -- Nuns and temptresses: representing women in Jainism -- The making of a Sadhvi: claims and counterclaims -- Ethics of care: individual and the institutional -- Idealised lives biographies of two iconic nuns -- Some concluding t...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2012
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| In: |
South Asian history and culture (8)
Year: 2012 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series/Journal: | South Asian history and culture
8 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Jainism
/ Woman
/ Ascetic woman
B India / Jainism / Bhikkuni |
| Further subjects: | B
Women in Jainism
B Sannyasi B Monastic and religious life (Jainism) B Women ascetics India |
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