Tine Vekemans
Biographic Data
| ID | 903045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tine Vekemans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tine |
| FAMILY NAME | Vekemans |
| SIGNATURE | VEKEMANS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3029-2812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Jainism, Adaptation, and Resilience
Inspired by the resilience shown by Jain communities during the global COVID -19 pandemic, this special issue focuses on the processes of change, challenge, and adaptation throughout Jain history. In this introductory article to the issue, we consider the ways in which Jain Studies can – and should – engage with these processes. We begin by acknowledging the existing search for a “core” Jain tradition, within both Jain communities and earlier sch…
Unlikely Departures: A Jain Mendicant’s Decision to Travel Overseas
This article presents parts of the travels of two Jain mendicants around the Western Indian Ocean in the mid-1940s. After a thorough introduction into Jainism as it came to Aden and East Africa with nineteenth-century traders and businessmen, as well as into the different mobilities afforded lay Jains on the one hand, and mendicants on the other, it unpacks the decision-making process that preceded the departure of two yati s: a departure from th…
Books of Becoming: Memory Writing and Memory Sharing on 20th-Century Oshwal Jain Migration
This article examines the narrative of migration that circulates among Oshwal Jains today. It does so by closely analyzing a varied corpus of memory-writing, including autobiographies, family histories, community histories, memoirs, and social media discussing the settlement of Oshwal Jains from British India in East Africa between 1890 and 1950, and their subsequent onward migration from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. This article first pres…
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment
The relationship between science and religion has been an important theme in the politics of the subcontinent for a few centuries.The idea that India was prone to prejudice, superstition, and dogmatic belief and therefore needed help advancing towards supposedly scientific and rational 'modern times' was very often central to colonial thought and was used to justify colonial rule.The idea of 'being modern' and its impact on belief and cultural, s…
Walter N. Hakala: Negotiating languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the definition of modern South Asia
Article Walter N. Hakala: Negotiating languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the definition of modern South Asia was published on September 1, 2022 in the journal Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (volume 9, issue 1-2)
MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace
This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra. After a preliminary discussion of Tantra and Tantric elements in Jainism, BMH is introduced as the most recent layer in a complex tradition that grew around the Bhaktāmar Stotra and conceptualized as a “Tantric reconfiguration”: a relatively recent creative blending of Jain devotional and Tantric elements with some new influences resulting in…
Lost and found, centre and periphery: Narratives of the Jain diasporic experience online
The article will investigate the contemporary Jain diasporic experience through an analysis of online narratives on ‘diaspora Jains’ and ‘diaspora Jainism’. Over the past two decades, digital media have become an important new arena to imagine, construct, and share the diasporic experience, both for members of the diasporic community and for Jains living in India. This paper will elaborate on and compare different narratives on the Jain diasporic…
Crisis and Continuation: The Digital Relocation of Jain Socio-Religious Praxis during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In early 2020, Jain diaspora communities and organizations that had been painstakingly built over the past decades were faced with the far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant restrictions. With the possibility of regular face-to-face contact and participation in recurring events-praying, eating, learning, and meditating together-severely limited in most places, organizations were compelled to make a choice. They eit…
Roots, Routes, and Routers: Social and Digital Dynamics in the Jain Diaspora
In the past three decades, Jains living in diaspora have been instrumental in the digital boom of Jainism-related websites, social media accounts, and mobile applications. Arguably, the increased availability and pervasive use of different kinds of digital media impacts how individuals deal with their roots; for example, it allows for greater contact with family and friends, but also with religious figures, back in India. It also impacts upon rou…
Crisis and Continuation: The Digital Relocation of Jain Socio-Religious Praxis during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In early 2020, Jain diaspora communities and organizations that had been painstakingly built over the past decades were faced with the far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant restrictions. With the possibility of regular face-to-face contact and participation in recurring events-praying, eating, learning, and meditating together-severely limited in most places, organizations were compelled to make a choice. They eit…
Roots, Routes, and Routers: Social and Digital Dynamics in the Jain Diaspora
In the past three decades, Jains living in diaspora have been instrumental in the digital boom of Jainism-related websites, social media accounts, and mobile applications. Arguably, the increased availability and pervasive use of different kinds of digital media impacts how individuals deal with their roots; for example, it allows for greater contact with family and friends, but also with religious figures, back in India. It also impacts upon rou…
Roots, Routes, and Routers: Social and Digital Dynamics in the Jain Diaspora
In the past three decades, Jains living in diaspora have been instrumental in the digital boom of Jainism-related websites, social media accounts, and mobile applications. Arguably, the increased availability and pervasive use of different kinds of digital media impacts how individuals deal with their roots; for example, it allows for greater contact with family and friends, but also with religious figures, back in India. It also impacts upon rou…
Lost and found, centre and periphery: Narratives of the Jain diasporic experience online
The article will investigate the contemporary Jain diasporic experience through an analysis of online narratives on ‘diaspora Jains’ and ‘diaspora Jainism’. Over the past two decades, digital media have become an important new arena to imagine, construct, and share the diasporic experience, both for members of the diasporic community and for Jains living in India. This paper will elaborate on and compare different narratives on the Jain diasporic…
Crisis and Continuation: The Digital Relocation of Jain Socio-Religious Praxis during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In early 2020, Jain diaspora communities and organizations that had been painstakingly built over the past decades were faced with the far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant restrictions. With the possibility of regular face-to-face contact and participation in recurring events-praying, eating, learning, and meditating together-severely limited in most places, organizations were compelled to make a choice. They eit…
Walter N. Hakala: Negotiating languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the definition of modern South Asia
Article Walter N. Hakala: Negotiating languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the definition of modern South Asia was published on September 1, 2022 in the journal Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (volume 9, issue 1-2)
MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace
This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra. After a preliminary discussion of Tantra and Tantric elements in Jainism, BMH is introduced as the most recent layer in a complex tradition that grew around the Bhaktāmar Stotra and conceptualized as a “Tantric reconfiguration”: a relatively recent creative blending of Jain devotional and Tantric elements with some new influences resulting in…
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment
The relationship between science and religion has been an important theme in the politics of the subcontinent for a few centuries.The idea that India was prone to prejudice, superstition, and dogmatic belief and therefore needed help advancing towards supposedly scientific and rational 'modern times' was very often central to colonial thought and was used to justify colonial rule.The idea of 'being modern' and its impact on belief and cultural, s…
Introduction: Jainism, Adaptation, and Resilience
Inspired by the resilience shown by Jain communities during the global COVID -19 pandemic, this special issue focuses on the processes of change, challenge, and adaptation throughout Jain history. In this introductory article to the issue, we consider the ways in which Jain Studies can – and should – engage with these processes. We begin by acknowledging the existing search for a “core” Jain tradition, within both Jain communities and earlier sch…
Unlikely Departures: A Jain Mendicant’s Decision to Travel Overseas
This article presents parts of the travels of two Jain mendicants around the Western Indian Ocean in the mid-1940s. After a thorough introduction into Jainism as it came to Aden and East Africa with nineteenth-century traders and businessmen, as well as into the different mobilities afforded lay Jains on the one hand, and mendicants on the other, it unpacks the decision-making process that preceded the departure of two yati s: a departure from th…
Books of Becoming: Memory Writing and Memory Sharing on 20th-Century Oshwal Jain Migration
This article examines the narrative of migration that circulates among Oshwal Jains today. It does so by closely analyzing a varied corpus of memory-writing, including autobiographies, family histories, community histories, memoirs, and social media discussing the settlement of Oshwal Jains from British India in East Africa between 1890 and 1950, and their subsequent onward migration from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. This article first pres…
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)