Organizing Jainism in India and England
Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 8 October 1992
- ISBN 9780198273882
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 223x143x21 mm
- Weight 502 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, maps, tables 0
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Short description:
Although the Jains have a religious history spanning two-and-a-half millennia Western scholars have shown little interest in them until recently. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among Jains in Gujarat State, India and Leicester, England, Marcus Banks aims to provide an understanding of contemporary Jain identity through an examination of their organizations.
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Although the Jains have a religious history spanning two-and -a-half millennia Western scholars have shown little interest in them until recently. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among Jains in the Indian state of Gujarat and a migrant Gujarati Jain group in Leicester, England, Marcus Banks aims to provide an understanding of contemporary Jain identity through an examination of their social and religious organizations.
The first part of the book describes the array of religious and caste organizations found among Jains in the Indian city of Jamnagar and how Jains from Jamnagar and elsewhere in Gujarat migrated to East Africa, transforming their organizations in the process. The second part looks at the new forms of organization that have developed among the Jains who came to Leicester from East Africa and the part these have played in changing perceptions of Jainism itself. Throughout the book Dr Banks plays special attention to the use and transformation of urban space by religious and other groups, and he concludes with comments on the definition of religion and religious identity.
This is one of the first book-length studies of the Jains as a migrant group overseas, where they are studied in their own right rather than simply as an ethnic minority. It will be valuable both for its documentation of a small but influential population and for its direct comparison of aspects of communal and religious organization in India and the UK.
`While this book is a technical book aimed at scholars of religion and anthropologists, the clarity of Banks' prose expands his audience to other interested readers ... Banks' study will serve as an invaluable resource for those interested in religions of emigr^d'es, lay religiosity, Jainism and religions of India.'
The Religious Studies Review
Table of Contents:
Introduction; The City of Jamnagar: its Jain inhabitants; Coming together in Jamnagar; Who owns what? Jain religious property in Jamnagar; In and out of Africa; The City of Leicester: its Jain inhabitants; Coming together in Leicester; Which way forward? Ways of believing in Leicester; Some conclusions
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