Peter Flugel
Biographic Data
| ID | 78157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Flugel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Flugel |
| SIGNATURE | FLUGEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation: The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms
While 'individuality' is regarded as a cultural construct, this article argues that its trans-cultural investigation has hardly begun, both empirically and theoretically. Comparative work to date has been confined to euro-centric approaches. South Asian models of the individual, though amongst the earliest on record, have not been taken seriously as credible alternatives to European models, other than under the label of 'ethnosociology'. The pres…
Jaina-Onomasticon
Sacred Matter: Reflections on the Relationship of Karmic and Natural Causality in Jaina Philosophy
The Jaina Cult of Relic Stūpas
This article gives an overview of recent findings on the thriving cult of bone relic stūpas in contemporary Jaina culture. Although Jaina doctrine rejects the worship of material objects, fieldwork in India on the hitherto unstudied current Jaina mortuary rituals furnished clear evidence for the ubiquity of bone relic stūpas and relic veneration across the Jaina sectarian spectrum. The article discusses a representative case and assesses the sign…
Studies in Jaina History and Culture: Disputes and dialogues
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies. Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged throughout its long history. The focus of the book is t…
Demographic trends in Jaina monasticism
The study of Jainism as a lived religion is still hampered by a lack of reliable sociological and demographic information both on the Jain laity and Jain mendicants. Most empirical studies to date have been thematically oriented or were of an exploratory nature, based on the methods advanced by the classical anthropological village studies or on small surveys of a non-representative nature. In both cases, the units of investigation were defined i…
Jainism and society
A review of John E. Cort: Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
Jainism and Ecology: Non-Violence in the Web of Life
The Codes of Conduct of the Terāpanth Sama[UNKNOWN]n Order
The article investigates the relationship between canonical rules ( dharma) and customary rules ( maryādā) in contemporary Jain mendicant life. It focuses on an analysis of the Terāpanth śvetāmbara Jain mendicant order and presents translations and analyses of the rules and regulations and initiation rituals for a new category of Jain novices, the saman order, which was introduced by the Terāpanth in 1981. It is argued that variations and cumulat…
Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture
What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence A. Babb explores the ritual culture of image-worshipping Svetambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan. Jainism traces its lin…
Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy and Society Among the Jains
Jain Revivial at the V&A Museum
Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture
What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence A. Babb explores the ritual culture of image-worshipping Svetambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan. Jainism traces its lin…
Sacred Matter: Reflections on the Relationship of Karmic and Natural Causality in Jaina Philosophy
The Jaina Cult of Relic Stūpas
This article gives an overview of recent findings on the thriving cult of bone relic stūpas in contemporary Jaina culture. Although Jaina doctrine rejects the worship of material objects, fieldwork in India on the hitherto unstudied current Jaina mortuary rituals furnished clear evidence for the ubiquity of bone relic stūpas and relic veneration across the Jaina sectarian spectrum. The article discusses a representative case and assesses the sign…
Jainism and society
A review of John E. Cort: Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
Jainism and Ecology: Non-Violence in the Web of Life
Jain Revivial at the V&A Museum
Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy and Society Among the Jains
Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture
What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence A. Babb explores the ritual culture of image-worshipping Svetambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan. Jainism traces its lin…
The Codes of Conduct of the Terāpanth Sama[UNKNOWN]n Order
The article investigates the relationship between canonical rules ( dharma) and customary rules ( maryādā) in contemporary Jain mendicant life. It focuses on an analysis of the Terāpanth śvetāmbara Jain mendicant order and presents translations and analyses of the rules and regulations and initiation rituals for a new category of Jain novices, the saman order, which was introduced by the Terāpanth in 1981. It is argued that variations and cumulat…
Jainism and Ecology: Non-Violence in the Web of Life
Studies in Jaina History and Culture: Disputes and dialogues
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies. Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged throughout its long history. The focus of the book is t…
Demographic trends in Jaina monasticism
The study of Jainism as a lived religion is still hampered by a lack of reliable sociological and demographic information both on the Jain laity and Jain mendicants. Most empirical studies to date have been thematically oriented or were of an exploratory nature, based on the methods advanced by the classical anthropological village studies or on small surveys of a non-representative nature. In both cases, the units of investigation were defined i…
Jainism and society
A review of John E. Cort: Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
The Jaina Cult of Relic Stūpas
This article gives an overview of recent findings on the thriving cult of bone relic stūpas in contemporary Jaina culture. Although Jaina doctrine rejects the worship of material objects, fieldwork in India on the hitherto unstudied current Jaina mortuary rituals furnished clear evidence for the ubiquity of bone relic stūpas and relic veneration across the Jaina sectarian spectrum. The article discusses a representative case and assesses the sign…
Sacred Matter: Reflections on the Relationship of Karmic and Natural Causality in Jaina Philosophy
Jaina-Onomasticon
Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation: The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms
While 'individuality' is regarded as a cultural construct, this article argues that its trans-cultural investigation has hardly begun, both empirically and theoretically. Comparative work to date has been confined to euro-centric approaches. South Asian models of the individual, though amongst the earliest on record, have not been taken seriously as credible alternatives to European models, other than under the label of 'ethnosociology'. The pres…
Indian and Buddhist Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political science (3 works)