While Western Jaina scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favouring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education and the performances of key rituals.
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This volume explores how ritual behaviour diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance.
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affir…
Introduction : Jayaganesh and the avant-garde -- Playing -- The street is the stage -- Waehma : space, time, identity, and theater at New Pascua, Arizona -- Striding through the cosmos : movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar -- Wayang kulit in the colo…
