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...Kristi L. Wiley Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Maṇḍaḷ Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion . By M. Whitney Kelting . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 . xx, 268 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

...John E. Cort Steps to Liberation: 2,500 Years of Jain Art and Religion . Edited by Jan Van Alphen . Antwerp : Etnografisch Museum , 2000 . 188 pages. BEF 980. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 911 analysis of the historical...

...Lisa N. Owen While this book allows readers to gain entry into Jain narratives and ritual practices, this is not a book solely about Jainism. In every chapter, Cort provides relevant comparative material from other religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. By doing so...

...Michael W. Meister Monolithic Jinas: The Iconography of the Jain Temples of Ellora . By José Pereira . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1977 . xviii, 186 pp. Appendixes, Plans, Figures, Index. Rs. 40. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...John Cort La voie jaina . [The Jain way] . By N. Shântâ . Paris : O.E.I.L. , 1985 . 601 pp. Fr 250. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 430 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES financial resources already exist" rather than "the sort of D h a r m...

...John E. Cort The Lives of the Jain Elders . By Hemacandra ; translated by R. C. C. Fynes . Oxford World's Classics. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xli, 280 pp. $11.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1166 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Robert A. Hueckstedt The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature . Edited by Phyllis Granoff . Oakville, Ontario : Mosaic Press . 1990 . 290 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 193 included here...

...Cynthia Talbot Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History . Edited by John E. Cort . SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Wendy Doniger, editor. Albany : State University of New York Press , 1998 . viil, 264 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Steven Kemper Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual . By Lawrence A. Babb . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xii, 244 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper). Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society...

.... At the center of my inquiry is a puzzling cultural fact, the seemingly paradoxical claim by many nonviolent Jains to be descended from warlike Rājpūts. Despite its extreme emphasis on ascetic withdrawal from the world, Jainism is, as I hope to show, deeply implicated in the worldly identity of certain social...

...Peter van der Veer Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society . Edited by Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . xiii , 328 pp. $54.50. 682 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Lawrence A. Babb Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains . By Kendall W. Folkert . Edited by John E. Cort . Atlanta : Scholars Press , 1993 . xxvii, 451 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $59.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1126...

...Robert J. Zydenbos Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society among the Jains . By James Laidlaw . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1995 . x, 436 pp. $89.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 1226 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...John W. Spellman Abstract There is a story that the Jain saint Bhadrabāhu predicted a famine which would last for twelve years and, as a result of this famine, he led twelve thousand Jains in search of better lands. King Candragupta Maurya is said to have accompanied them and lived for twelve years...

...Pankaj Jain Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition . By Bhaskar Sarkar . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2009 . xi , 384 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 This is one of the most...

...Purnendra Jain The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change . By Gerald L. Curtis . New York : Columbia University Press , 1999 . xi , 303 pp. $29.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1050...

... is the agent of its own modifications." the school and its village setting. This position, which is sometimes considered Nevertheless, Growing Up in a Philippine suspect even among well informed Jains for Barrio is an extraordinarily skillful and in- fear of appearing Absolutist and thus destroysightful...