The Gift of Food to a Wandering Cow: Lay-Mendicant Interaction Among the Jains
This essay approaches world renunciation among the Jains not as an ideological construct in which the social world is transcended, but rather as a socially interactive practice. The ongoing transactional relationship between renouncers and laity is investigated in terms of the gifting of food to the...
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| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1999
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Journal of Asian and African studies
Year: 1999, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 89-110 |
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