Absent Lord - Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence A. Babb is Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College and author of Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu Tradition (California! 1986). Klappentext Absent Lord sheds light on a little-known religious tradition and demonstrates that divine 'absence' can be as rich as divine 'presence' in its possibilities for informing a religious response to the cosmos. Zusammenfassung The ritual culture of image-worshipping Sventambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan are explored in this volume, with the author linking Jain tradition to the social identity of existing Jain communities.

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• Authors: Lawrence Babb, Lawrence A. Babb, Babb Lawrence A.
• Assisted by: Lawrence A. Babb (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1996
• EAN: 9780520203242
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20324-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Comparative Studies in Religio; Comparative Studies in Religion and Society; Comparative Studies in Religion and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Devotional, RELIGION / Jainism, India, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Jainism