Jain approaches to plurality : : identity as dialogue / / by Melanie Barbato.

• Superior document: Currents of Encounter, Volume 55
• VerfasserIn: Barbato, Melanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of encounter ; Volume 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages).

In Jain Approaches to Plurality Melanie Barbato offers a new perspective on the Jain teaching of plurality ( anekāntavāda ) and how it allowed Jains to engage with other discourses from Indian inter-school philosophy to global interreligious dialogue. Jainism, one of the world’s oldest religions, has managed to both adapt and preserve its identity across time through its inherently dialogical outlook. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources and original research in India, Barbato analyses the encounters between Jains and non-Jains in the classical, colonial and global context. Jain Approaches to Plurality offers a comprehensive introduction to anekāntavāda as a non-Western resource for understanding plurality and engaging in dialogue. “Building upon earlier work in this field without simply reduplicating it, Melanie Barbato’s work delves deeply into the question of the relevance of Jain approaches to religious and philosophical diversity to contemporary issues of inter-religious dialogue, and dialogues across worldviews more generally. (…) This work is a most welcome contribution to the conversation.” — Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College . April 2017. Author of Jainism: An Introduction .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Identity in Changing Times -- Who are the Jains? A Community between Indian Tradition and Global Modernity -- Jains in Inner-Indian Dialogue -- Plurality in Modern Jain Dialogues -- Jain Dialogic Identity – Then and Now.