{"product_id":"jain-approaches-to-plurality-identity-as-dialogue-9789004339309","title":"Jain Approaches to Plurality: Identity as Dialogue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  1 Introduction: Identity in Changing Times  The Historical Development of Anekāntavāda   First Stage: Discourse within the Jain Community   Second Stage: Indian Inter-school Discourse   Third Stage: Colonial Discourse   Fourth Stage: Global Discourse  The Structure of the Book  2 Who are the Jains? A Community between Indian Tradition and Global Modernity  The Fordmakers  Beliefs and Worship  Puṇya and Pāpa  The Historical Development of Jainism  Conclusion  3 Jains in Inner-indian Dialogue  The Schools of Indian Philosophy  The Historical Development of Jain Philosophy  The Classical Concept of Anekāntavāda  Plurality in Jain Ontology   Indian Ontologies   An Ontology of Organic Plurality   Origination, Destruction and Persistence   Substance, Qualities and Modifications   The Complex Union of Reality  Classical Applications   Universals   Relations   Cause and Effect   The Nature of the Soul  Plurality in Jain Discursive Logic   Logic in India   The Nyāya Inference Model   The Aim of Indian Logic   Jain Logic: Every Statement is Conditional   Sevenfold Predication   Yaśovijaya’s Interpretation of the Saptabhaṅgī   Śankara’s Criticism of Jain Logic   Jain Logic, Nyāya Logic, Western Logic  Plurality and Perfect Knowledge   Jain Soteriology   The Stages of Knowledge   Limited Knowledge: The View-points   False Views and Absolutism   What the Omniscient Know   Plurality in the Light of Omniscience   Kundakunda’s Two Viewpoints  Conclusion   4 Plurality in Modern Jain Dialogues  Tolerance and Interreligious Dialogue    The World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago   Indian Inclusivism   The Limits of Jain Tolerance   Gandhi and Shrimad Rajchandra   Anekāntavāda as Intellectual Non-violence   Anekāntavāda as Relativism   Identity, Values and Doctrine  Jainism in Dialogue with Science    The Historical Context   A Scientific Religion?   Jainism as Scientific Theory  Jain Diplomacy    Jain Environmental Activism   Acharya Sushil Kumar and Religious Diplomacy  Conclusion   5 Jain Dialogic Identity – Then and Now  Anekāntavāda between Philosophy and Rhetorics   Four Understandings of anekāntavāda   A Philosophical Understanding of anekāntavāda   A Conservative Modern Understanding of anekāntavāda   A Modernist Understanding of anekāntavāda   A Lay Orthodox Understanding of anekāntavāda  Who Speaks for anekāntavāda?   Conclusion  Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210700054871,"sku":"9789004339309","price":50.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jain-approaches-to-plurality-identity-as-dialogue-9789004339309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}