Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism
The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life. The Jain child mend...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Religion compass
Year: 2025, Volume: 19, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-8 |
| Further subjects: | B
Indian Traditions
B Enlightenment B Modernity B Human Rights B Sex B Religion B Jainism B Family B Postcolonialism B Equality |
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| Summary: | The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life. The Jain child mendicant (bāl muni) is explored in her historical, textual, demographic, sociological, and political contexts. The author proposes consideration of Jain conceptions of children's rights in policy and development contexts. Such conceptions would be a welcome addition to the project of revising Enlightenment-era frameworks so as to endow children with a more robust basis for rights than modern Western or Atlantic-world rights discourses grounded in Enlightenment-era frameworks offer. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rec3.70021 |
