Guardians of the Transcendent - An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community

Informationen zum Autor Anne Vallely is a part-time lecturer in the Departments of Anthropology and Religion at Concordia University, and in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University. Klappentext Explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi Svetambar Jain ascetic community, and examines the central role ascetics play in upholding the Jain moral order. Zusammenfassung Explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi Svetambar Jain ascetic community! and examines the central role ascetics play in upholding the Jain moral order.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anne Vallely is a part-time lecturer in the Departments of Anthropology and Religion at Concordia University, and in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anne Vallely
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2002
• EAN: 9780802035455
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3545-5
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Anthropological Horizons; Anthropological Horizons (Univ; Anthropological Horizons
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde