Constance Chapple
Biographic Data
| ID | 285078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Chapple |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapple |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPPLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7536-4429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Legends in Gandhian Social Activism: Mira Behn and Sarala Behn. Addressing Environmental Issues by Dissolving Gender and Colonial Barriers, by Bidisha Mallik
Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj, Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition
Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj, Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021), 294 pp., $34.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9780520380561
The Philosophy of the Yogasūtra: An Introduction. Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies by Karen O’Brien-Kop (review)
Immanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking?
Immanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking?
Jain Tantra: An Overview
The Jain faith is known first and foremost for its thoroughgoing commitment to nonviolence (ahiṃsā) and emphasis on psychic and bodily purity (śuddha, śubha). Hence, Jain texts proclaim antipathy toward tantric practices that include “defiling” practices, such as the ingestion of meat, fish, and alcohol and the performance of sexual acts. Nonetheless, the allure of tantra does not go without notice, and, eventually, tantric practices such as the …
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and…
Faith for Earth: A Call for Action, by David Hales, Kusumita Pedersen, Tatiana Brailovskaya, eds
David Hales, Kusumita Pedersen, Tatiana Brailovskaya, eds., Faith for Earth: A Call for Action. Nairobi and Chicago: United Nations Environment Programme. Parliament of the World’s Religions, 2020. Ebook. 108 pp. Open Access. ISBN: 9789280738025. https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/faith-earth-call-actionThis handbook surveys the relationship between nature and faith in numerous traditions: indigenous, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Zoroastri…
Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas
The Academic Study of Yoga in India
Yoga and Meditation: Indoctrination or Integration of Body, Breath, and Emotions
Four New Works on the Mahābhārata
Devotion in Jain song and poetic narrative
An underlying fabric enfolds this collection of essays on Jain music and musicality, poetry and the poetic, a fabric woven of words and rhythm. These four essays, two on music, and two on the more
Religious Experience and Yoga
Yoga practice provides access to religious experience, which has been defined by William James as "immediate luminousness, philosophical reasonableness, and moral helpfulness." In this paper the processes of Yoga will be summarized as found in the Bhagavad Gῑtā and the Yoga Sūtra. This article concludes with instructions on how to perform a practice that integrates Yoga breathing and movement with reflections on the Sāṃkhya descriptions of physic…
History of Indian Philosophy: Routledge history of world philosophies
Tantric Yoga in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa of Hinduism and the Jñānārṇava of Jainism
This paper explores the Markaṇḍeya Purāṇa, one of the earliest expositions of what become Tantric themes in Hinduism, and the Jñānārṇava, which provides an early template for the practice of Jaina Tantra. The former text follows the traditional mapping of the five elements and correlative senses, linking earth to smell, water to taste, fire to form, air to touch, and space to hearing, in a sequence of ascent. In contrast, the Jaina practice relat…
Reincarnation: Mechanics, Narratives, and Implications
This essay explores the mechanics associated with rebirth, noting differences between Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives. It examines the concept of subtle body and the liṅgam in Sāṃkhya. According to the Hindu tradition, the remains of the departed person, when cremated, merge with clouds in the upper atmosphere. As the monsoon rain clouds gather, the leftovers mingle with the clouds, returning to earth and eventually finding new life in compl…
Gender Differences in Associations with Deviant Peer Groups: Examining Individual, Interactional, and Compositional Factors
Researchers have long known that boys are more likely to have deviant peers than are girls. Yet, little research has tried to explain why boys and girls differ in their decision to associate with deviant peers. With the salience of deviant peers well established as a robust predictor of delinquency, we address the question, are the predictors of association with deviant peers different for boys and girls? In our examination of family and communit…
Ethics of Synthetic Life: A Jaina Perspective
Many Western philosophers, from Aristotle through Descartes and even Collingwood and Whitehead, have regarded the material world to be largely inert and subject to human intervention. The modern period has yielded more nuanced definitions of nature, seeing the process of life as self-generating and self-sustaining. The Jaina worldview, dating from the first several centuries before the common era, has developed an elaborate biological schematic t…
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History. By Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson's book Unifying Hinduism advances our knowledge of medieval thought in India and demonstrates its ongoing relevance not only in India but in the contemporary culture and identity “wars” that spark global interest. Did the Orientalists “create” Hinduism? Nicholson answers no, and also cautions that the way Hindus describe themselves is far more complex and nuanced than is often assumed. In Unifying Hinduism, Nicholson has created …
Contextualizing the History of Yoga in Geoffrey Samuel’s The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: A Review Symposium
Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions – By Ellison Banks Findly
Jainism: The Creed for All Times – By Dalpat Singh Baya
Yoga: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English, 1981‐2005 – By Daren Callahan
Modern Yoga
Bingo: Hints of Deviance in the Accounts of Sociability and Profit of Bingo Players
This study investigates the social construction of bingo players and bingo playing. Although gambling has largely maintained its deviant reputation, bingo, as a form of gambling, remains untainted by labels of deviance. We undertook a small ethnographic study of bingo playing in a Southwestern town. Because we had very little knowledge of bingo and bingo playing when we entered the field, our original research questions reflected the central conc…
Reincarnation: Mechanics, Narratives, and Implications
This essay explores the mechanics associated with rebirth, noting differences between Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives. It examines the concept of subtle body and the liṅgam in Sāṃkhya. According to the Hindu tradition, the remains of the departed person, when cremated, merge with clouds in the upper atmosphere. As the monsoon rain clouds gather, the leftovers mingle with the clouds, returning to earth and eventually finding new life in compl…
Gender Differences in Associations with Deviant Peer Groups: Examining Individual, Interactional, and Compositional Factors
Researchers have long known that boys are more likely to have deviant peers than are girls. Yet, little research has tried to explain why boys and girls differ in their decision to associate with deviant peers. With the salience of deviant peers well established as a robust predictor of delinquency, we address the question, are the predictors of association with deviant peers different for boys and girls? In our examination of family and communit…
Tantric Yoga in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa of Hinduism and the Jñānārṇava of Jainism
This paper explores the Markaṇḍeya Purāṇa, one of the earliest expositions of what become Tantric themes in Hinduism, and the Jñānārṇava, which provides an early template for the practice of Jaina Tantra. The former text follows the traditional mapping of the five elements and correlative senses, linking earth to smell, water to taste, fire to form, air to touch, and space to hearing, in a sequence of ascent. In contrast, the Jaina practice relat…
Sacrifice and Sustainability
Sacrifice in the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian traditions involves a giving up, a surrendering of something for the sake of a greater good. Sacrifice in times past took the form of a bloody offering. In Christianity this has been replaced with the Eucharist, which promotes human conscience and adherence to a moral code. Sacrifice in the ancient Vedic traditions of India entailed the offering of an animal or the symbolic offering of a human b…
Reading Patañjali Without Vyasa: A Critique of Four Yoga Sutra Passages
Journal Article Reading Patañjali Without Vyasa: A Critique of Four Yoga Sutra Passages Get access Christopher Key Chapple Christopher Key Chapple Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 85–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.1.85 Published: 01 March 1994
Reading Patañjali Without Vyasa: A Critique of Four Yoga Sutra Passages
Journal Article Reading Patañjali Without Vyasa: A Critique of Four Yoga Sutra Passages Get access Christopher Key Chapple Christopher Key Chapple Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 85–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.1.85 Published: 01 March 1994
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions
Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples
Book Review| October 01 1998 Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples. By Paul David Numrich. The University of Tennessee Press, 1996. 181 pages. $25.00 cloth. Christopher Key Chapple Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nov…
Thomas Berry, Buddhism, and the New Cosmology
Our contemporary awareness of an environmental ethic is understood to be based on representing a cosmology of the inter- connection of all beings. This construct is coincident with the emerg- ing sense of our present view of the phenomenal world and resonant with the insights of Theravada Buddhism
Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self
Book Review| April 01 1999 Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self. Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self. By Jiddu Krishnamurti. Edited by Raymond Martin. Open Court Publishing Company, 1997. 214 pages. $16.95 paper. Christopher Key Chapple Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 2 (2): 318–319. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.318 Views Ic…
Bingo: Hints of Deviance in the Accounts of Sociability and Profit of Bingo Players
This study investigates the social construction of bingo players and bingo playing. Although gambling has largely maintained its deviant reputation, bingo, as a form of gambling, remains untainted by labels of deviance. We undertook a small ethnographic study of bingo playing in a Southwestern town. Because we had very little knowledge of bingo and bingo playing when we entered the field, our original research questions reflected the central conc…
Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water
This fourth volume in the series exploring religions and the environment investigates the role of the multifaceted Hindu tradition in the development of greater ecological awareness in India. The 22 contributors ask how traditional concepts of nature in the classical texts might inspire or impede an eco-friendly attitude among modern Hindus, and they describe some grass-roots approaches to environmental protection. They look to Gandhian principle…
Jainism and Ecology
This article examines the Jaina faith in light of its commitment to environmental values. After providing an overview of Jaina history and principles, it discusses contemporary Jain environmentalism, concentration on the elements and senses as vehicle for ecoawareness, and water in Jainism. This article also includes the author's reflections on his own practice of the Jain principles as interpreted through the tradition of classical yoga. At the …
Disciplines and Vows (Yamas and Vratas): How the Mystical Yields to the Ethical in Yoga and Jainism
Article Disciplines and Vows (Yamas and Vratas): How the Mystical Yields to the Ethical in Yoga and Jainism was published on December 18, 2007 in the journal Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (volume 9, issue 1)
Yoga: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English, 1981‐2005 – By Daren Callahan
Modern Yoga
Sacrifice and Sustainability
Sacrifice in the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian traditions involves a giving up, a surrendering of something for the sake of a greater good. Sacrifice in times past took the form of a bloody offering. In Christianity this has been replaced with the Eucharist, which promotes human conscience and adherence to a moral code. Sacrifice in the ancient Vedic traditions of India entailed the offering of an animal or the symbolic offering of a human b…
Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions – By Ellison Banks Findly
Jainism: The Creed for All Times – By Dalpat Singh Baya
Contextualizing the History of Yoga in Geoffrey Samuel’s The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: A Review Symposium
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History. By Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson's book Unifying Hinduism advances our knowledge of medieval thought in India and demonstrates its ongoing relevance not only in India but in the contemporary culture and identity “wars” that spark global interest. Did the Orientalists “create” Hinduism? Nicholson answers no, and also cautions that the way Hindus describe themselves is far more complex and nuanced than is often assumed. In Unifying Hinduism, Nicholson has created …
Ethics of Synthetic Life: A Jaina Perspective
Many Western philosophers, from Aristotle through Descartes and even Collingwood and Whitehead, have regarded the material world to be largely inert and subject to human intervention. The modern period has yielded more nuanced definitions of nature, seeing the process of life as self-generating and self-sustaining. The Jaina worldview, dating from the first several centuries before the common era, has developed an elaborate biological schematic t…
Gender Differences in Associations with Deviant Peer Groups: Examining Individual, Interactional, and Compositional Factors
Researchers have long known that boys are more likely to have deviant peers than are girls. Yet, little research has tried to explain why boys and girls differ in their decision to associate with deviant peers. With the salience of deviant peers well established as a robust predictor of delinquency, we address the question, are the predictors of association with deviant peers different for boys and girls? In our examination of family and communit…
History of Indian Philosophy: Routledge history of world philosophies
Tantric Yoga in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa of Hinduism and the Jñānārṇava of Jainism
This paper explores the Markaṇḍeya Purāṇa, one of the earliest expositions of what become Tantric themes in Hinduism, and the Jñānārṇava, which provides an early template for the practice of Jaina Tantra. The former text follows the traditional mapping of the five elements and correlative senses, linking earth to smell, water to taste, fire to form, air to touch, and space to hearing, in a sequence of ascent. In contrast, the Jaina practice relat…
Reincarnation: Mechanics, Narratives, and Implications
This essay explores the mechanics associated with rebirth, noting differences between Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives. It examines the concept of subtle body and the liṅgam in Sāṃkhya. According to the Hindu tradition, the remains of the departed person, when cremated, merge with clouds in the upper atmosphere. As the monsoon rain clouds gather, the leftovers mingle with the clouds, returning to earth and eventually finding new life in compl…
Devotion in Jain song and poetic narrative
An underlying fabric enfolds this collection of essays on Jain music and musicality, poetry and the poetic, a fabric woven of words and rhythm. These four essays, two on music, and two on the more
Religious Experience and Yoga
Yoga practice provides access to religious experience, which has been defined by William James as "immediate luminousness, philosophical reasonableness, and moral helpfulness." In this paper the processes of Yoga will be summarized as found in the Bhagavad Gῑtā and the Yoga Sūtra. This article concludes with instructions on how to perform a practice that integrates Yoga breathing and movement with reflections on the Sāṃkhya descriptions of physic…
Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas
The Academic Study of Yoga in India
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