Vernacularizing Jainism: The Dharmapariksa by Manohardas

This article argues that the religious and social developments of seventeenth-century Jain communities in northern India can be characterized as vernacularization. This is a process in which religious expression turns towards the quotidian, the local and the practical, and is strongly intertwined wi...

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Main Author: De Jonckheere, Heleen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2023
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2023, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-204
Further subjects:B Old-Hindi
B vernacular religion
B adhyātma
B Narratives
B early modern India
B Digambara Jainism
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