Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion

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M. Whitney Kelting (Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Lawrence University)

Singing to the Jinas

Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion

M. Whitney Kelting (Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Lawrence University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
30 August 2001

Jainism; Worship, rites & ceremonies; Gender studies: women

While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge.

In this fieldwork-based study, Whitney Kelting attempts to reconcile these women's understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in the existing scholarship.

Jain women, she shows, both accept and rewrite the idealized roles received from religious texts, practices, and social expectation, according to which female religiosity is a symbol of Jain perfection. This volume describes these women's interpretations of their religion, not as folklore or popular religion, but as a theology that recreates Jainism in a form which honors their own participation.

By: M. Whitney Kelting (Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies St. Lawrence University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 244mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9780195140118
ISBN 10: 0195140117
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 August 2001
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion

Singing to the Jinas is a further significant landmark in Jain ethnography ... This fine book should appeal to a wide scholarly constituency: Those interested in ritual and the relationship between women and religion in South Asia in particular will find much to engage them. But, above all, it should be read as a salutary corrective by anybody tempted to think of Jainism as a religion lacking an overt devotional dimension and a poor relation amid India's rich culture of bhakti. Journal of the American Academy of Religion ... remarkably original and informative. Journal of the American Academy of Religion The most significant book-length study of Jain women to date ... Singing to the Jinas should also be of interest to any scholar who works at the intersection of religion and art. History of Religions This is a groundbreaking work on the genre of stavan and an important addition to recently published studies of Jain lay practices. It is an engaging, sensitive, and personal account of Svetambara Murtipujak laywomen's expressions of religiosity that is grounded thoroughly in Western academic theory. It should be read by everyone interested in the study of religion in South Asia, women and religion, ritual, devotional literature and devotional movements, performance theory, and musicology. The Journal of Asian Studies