Claire Maes
Biographic Data
| ID | 704037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Maes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Maes |
| SIGNATURE | MAES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Jain Fast to Death
Sallekhana and the End-of-Life Option of Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
This article brings sallekhana, the Jain practice of fasting to death, into conversation with the practice of ‘voluntary stopping of eating and drinking’ (VSED), an end-of-life option, available in various countries for competent adults, to hasten the end of life by consciously choosing to not eat and drink. From a medical and legal point of view sallekhana can be considered a form of VSED. Although differing in terms of intent and historical con…
Jain Life Reimagined
This article analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the religious practices and the public discourse of Jains in the U.S.A. and India. On the institutional level, I show how Jain organizations made extensive efforts to connect digitally with their community members when collective, in-person celebrations and temple visits were either reduced in number, limited in capacity, or cancelled because of the pandemic. Given the new importance o…
Framing the Pandemic
This paper identifies and examines a Jain narrative that frames Jain tenets as being in line with some of the most impactful COVID-19 measures. It demonstrates how during the early stages of the pandemic (i.e., mid-March 2020 to January 2021), some Jains drew parallels between various Jain principles and the WHO guidelines, finding agreement, for instance, between the muhpattī ("face cloth") and the public face mask and the dig-vrata (a Jain vow …
The Snake and the Mongoose
This contribution offers a review of The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion by Nathan McGovern (2019)
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol is an anthology of early European writers on the Buddha. Donald Lopez presents us with first-hand accounts of the ways in which the Buddha entered the Western imagination, taken from a wide variety of authors: everyone from shipwrecked sailors and missionaries to diamond merchants and scholars. These diachronic selections range from one paragraph in length up to eighteen pages. They begin in 215 CE with St. Cleme…
Flirtation with the other
This article identifies and examines processes of othering in an early Indian Buddhist ascetic text, the PaliVinayaof the Theravādins. By means of: (1) a critical discussion of the fact that the PaliVinayaholds several terms for the early Buddhists' ascetic others; and (2) a close reading and analysis of a small group of - easily overlooked - PaliVinayapassages with explicit references to supposed practices of the early Buddhists' ascetic others,…
Sallekhana and the End-of-Life Option of Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
This article brings sallekhana, the Jain practice of fasting to death, into conversation with the practice of ‘voluntary stopping of eating and drinking’ (VSED), an end-of-life option, available in various countries for competent adults, to hasten the end of life by consciously choosing to not eat and drink. From a medical and legal point of view sallekhana can be considered a form of VSED. Although differing in terms of intent and historical con…
Jain Life Reimagined
This article analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the religious practices and the public discourse of Jains in the U.S.A. and India. On the institutional level, I show how Jain organizations made extensive efforts to connect digitally with their community members when collective, in-person celebrations and temple visits were either reduced in number, limited in capacity, or cancelled because of the pandemic. Given the new importance o…
Flirtation with the other
This article identifies and examines processes of othering in an early Indian Buddhist ascetic text, the PaliVinayaof the Theravādins. By means of: (1) a critical discussion of the fact that the PaliVinayaholds several terms for the early Buddhists' ascetic others; and (2) a close reading and analysis of a small group of - easily overlooked - PaliVinayapassages with explicit references to supposed practices of the early Buddhists' ascetic others,…
Flirtation with the other
This article identifies and examines processes of othering in an early Indian Buddhist ascetic text, the PaliVinayaof the Theravādins. By means of: (1) a critical discussion of the fact that the PaliVinayaholds several terms for the early Buddhists' ascetic others; and (2) a close reading and analysis of a small group of - easily overlooked - PaliVinayapassages with explicit references to supposed practices of the early Buddhists' ascetic others,…
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol is an anthology of early European writers on the Buddha. Donald Lopez presents us with first-hand accounts of the ways in which the Buddha entered the Western imagination, taken from a wide variety of authors: everyone from shipwrecked sailors and missionaries to diamond merchants and scholars. These diachronic selections range from one paragraph in length up to eighteen pages. They begin in 215 CE with St. Cleme…
The Snake and the Mongoose
This contribution offers a review of The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion by Nathan McGovern (2019)
Jain Life Reimagined
This article analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the religious practices and the public discourse of Jains in the U.S.A. and India. On the institutional level, I show how Jain organizations made extensive efforts to connect digitally with their community members when collective, in-person celebrations and temple visits were either reduced in number, limited in capacity, or cancelled because of the pandemic. Given the new importance o…
Framing the Pandemic
This paper identifies and examines a Jain narrative that frames Jain tenets as being in line with some of the most impactful COVID-19 measures. It demonstrates how during the early stages of the pandemic (i.e., mid-March 2020 to January 2021), some Jains drew parallels between various Jain principles and the WHO guidelines, finding agreement, for instance, between the muhpattī ("face cloth") and the public face mask and the dig-vrata (a Jain vow …
Sallekhana and the End-of-Life Option of Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
This article brings sallekhana, the Jain practice of fasting to death, into conversation with the practice of ‘voluntary stopping of eating and drinking’ (VSED), an end-of-life option, available in various countries for competent adults, to hasten the end of life by consciously choosing to not eat and drink. From a medical and legal point of view sallekhana can be considered a form of VSED. Although differing in terms of intent and historical con…
The Jain Fast to Death
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