Engaged Jainism

Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement

Christopher Jain Miller, Cogen Bohanec (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2026
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
9798855805710 (ISBN)

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Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.

The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary cohort of academics and practitioners explore the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds—historically, philosophically, philologically, and anthropologically. Following the legacy of Engaged Buddhism, the groundbreaking volume edited by Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, this volume shows how Jain traditions become engaged in everyday life, puts Jain ideas in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, and examines the ways in which Jains have maintained Jain identity in their engagement with other religious traditions and cultural influences in the past and present. Across all of these disciplinary approaches, Jainism emerges as a dynamic, protean, and diverse tradition.

Christopher Jain Miller is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Jain and Yoga studies at the Arihanta Institute, Visiting Researcher at the University of Zürich's Asien-Orient-Institut, and Affiliate Professor of engaged Jain studies at the Claremont School of Theology. He is the author of Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation. Cogen Bohanec is Assistant Professor in Sanskrit and Jain studies at the Arihanta Institute and Affiliate Professor of engaged Jain studies at the Claremont School of Theology. He is the author of Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Metaethics.

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Parveen Jain

Introduction: Conceptualizing 'Engaged' Jainism and the Field of 'Engaged' Jain Studies
Christopher Jain Miller

Part I: Critical Issues in "Engaged Jain Studies"

1. Applied to What? For Whose Benefit? A Critique of "Applied Jain Ethics"
Steven M. Vose

2. Jain Mantra Healing: Opportunities and Challenges of an Engaged/Applied Jain Studies
Tine Vekemans

Part II: Social Engagement in the Diaspora

3. Engaged Curation: Challenges, Experiences, and Potentials from a Museum Exhibition about Jainism
Johannes Beltz

4. Engaged Jain Yoga: Narendra Kumar Jain's The Seven Stages of Enlightenment on the Berlin Wall
Christopher Jain Miller

5. Engaging Spaces: Jain Position and Identity in the Urban Space of Bangkok, Thailand
Yifan Zhang

Part III: Engaging with Business and Economy

6. Engaging Jain Ideas: Interdisciplinary Business Ethics Education
Benjamin Zenk

7. Engaged Jain Business and Professional Culture
Atul Shah

Part IV: Engaging to Protect Animals and the Environment

8. Jain Virtue Ethics Engaging with Animal Rights
Cogen Bohanec

9. Ahiṃsā, Anekānta, and Animal Rights: Engaging Plurality in our Planetary Context
Andrew Bridges

10. An American Panjrapole: Engaging Tradition and Innovation at Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary
Jonathan Dickstein

11. A Jain Perspective on Faux Meat: Engaging Jain Philosophy with Contemporary Debates
Joey Tuminello

12. Jain Ecotheology Engaging with Ecopsychology
Cogen Bohanec

Part V: Interfaith Engagement

13. Engaged Virtues: Cultivating Friendliness, Joy, Compassion, and Equanimity in Jain Thought
Alba Rodríguez Juan

14. Engaging Difference: Approaches to Religious Pluralism in Haribhadra's Yogabindu
Christopher Key Chapple

15. Fortuitous Jain Engagements with Non-Dualities: Jain Yoga in the Yogapradīpa and Yogasāra
Corinna May Lhoir

16. The Anuvrat Movement: A Case of Socially Engaged Jainism
Shivani Bothra

17. Engaged Anekāntavāda: The Potential of Jain Philosophy for Grounding Dialogue Across Worldviews (With a Focus on Vijñāna Vedānta)
Jeffery D. Long

List of Contributors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Religious Studies
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 9 Figures; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-13	9798855805710 / 9798855805710
Zustand	Neuware