Kelting M.Whitney:
Singing To The Jinas
Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing And The Negotiations Of Jain Devotion
Oxford University Press (United States), 2001
Hardback, 288 pages
Size: 234x156 mm
ISBN: 9780195140118
ISBN-10: 0195140117
Singing To The Jinas
The Jain community relies on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge. This fieldwork-based study attempts to reconcile these women's understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in existing scholarship.

