Escaping the world : women renouncers among Jains / Manisha Sethi.

Author
Sethi, Manisha [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description
xxvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-231) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Theorising renunciation: possibilities and limitations
    • Nuns and temptresses: representing women in Jainism
    • The making of a Sadhvi: claims and counterclaims
    • Ethics of care: individual and the institutional
    • Idealised lives biographies of two iconic nuns
    • Some concluding thoughts.
    ISBN
    • 9780415500814
    • 0415500818
    OCLC
    744299200
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