Escaping the world : women renouncers among Jains /: women renouncers among Jains. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Escaping the world : women renouncers among Jains /: women renouncers among Jains. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Escaping the world : women renouncers among Jains
- Further Information:
- Note: Manisha Sethi.
- Authors:
- Sethi, Manisha
- Contents:
- Glossary. Introduction 1. Theorizing Renunciation: Possibilities and Limitations 2. Nuns and Temptresses: Representing Women in Jainism 3. The Making of a Sadhvi: Claims and Counterclaims 4. Ethics of Care: Individual and the Institutional 5. Idealized Lives: Biographies of Two Iconic Nuns 6. Some Concluding Thoughts. Appendix. Bibliography. About the Author. Index
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- New Delhi : Routledge India
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 294.4082
Women in Jainism
Monastic and religious life (Jainism)
Sannyasi
Women ascetics -- India - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000365788
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781000366228
9781000366006
9781003157274 - Notes:
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