Lawrence A Babb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186111 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lawrence A Babb |
| PRENOMES | Lawrence A |
| SOBRENOME | Babb |
| ASSINATURA | BABB L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Amherst College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 215 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Weber and the Jains
although Max weber is best known to non-specialists for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, a work as controversial as it is famous, he also wrote extensively on the world's other major religions, and this included the religions of india. in what follows, i examine what he had say about Jainism and some of the issues to which it gives rise. i begin with some Jain basics followed by a brief account of what weber himself had to say a…
Framing the Jina
Journal Article Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History. By John E. Cort Get access Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History. By John E. Cort. Oxford University Press, 2010. 398 pages. $74.00. Lawrence A. Babb Lawrence A. Babb Amherst College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 3, Sep…
Guardians of the transcendent
Vallely, Anne . Guardians of the transcendent: an ethnography of a Jain ascetic community . 296 pp., plates, fig., bibliogr . London, Toronto : Univ. Toronto Press , 2002 . £ 45.00 (cloth), £18.00 (paper) To what degree do the roles of worldly social life carry over into the monastic world? And, more specifically, to what extent and in what ways do worldly gender roles project into world-renouncers’ lives? Anne Vallely addresses these questions i…
Mirrored warriors
Rejecting violence
In recent decades Agravāl leaders have been promoting a centre for caste pilgrimage at Agroha, the supposed place of Agravāl origin, and an associated Agravāl origin myth. Analysis reveals that this origin myth belongs to a class of similar origin myths found among North Indian trading castes. The central element in these myths is the ancient rite of sacrifice. The origin myths of the Khandelvāl Vaiśyas. Māheśvarıs, and Khandelvāl Jains all attem…
Absent Lord
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 Āśrama System
The Great Choice
Monks and Miracles
Jainism is well known as a radically ascetic strategy for achieving liberation from the world''s bondage. It is less well known as a system of religious belief and practice embedded in social life. This article will examine Jainism as a symbolism of social identity. At the center of my inquiry is a puzzling cultural fact, the seemingly paradoxical claim by many nonviolent Jains to be descended from warlike Rājpūts. Despite its extreme emphasis on…
Social Science Inside Out
Living Masters The Lord as Guru
Giving and Giving up
The Jinas, who are the principal objects of Jain worship, are believed to be entirely noninteractive with their worshippers. This fact has implications for the way ritual transactions between Jinas and their worshippers are conducted and conceived. An examination of the eightfold worship, a major daily rite among Jains, shows that ritual offerings are given by worshippers but not taken by any divine receiver. The act of giving does not establish …
Redemptive Encounters
Redemptive encounters
Indigenous Feminism in a Modern Hindu Sect
The Physiology of Redemption
Sathya Sai Baba's Magic
This paper is an excursion in the anthropology of credibility. Regarded as a living deity by his many followers, Sathya Sai Baba is one of the most important of lndia's modern religious figures. Thepaper explores the role of the miraculous in his cult. Miracles attributed to the deity-saint are shown to be vehicles for establishing and maintaining relationships between him and his followers utilizing a transactional framework of general importanc…
Amnesia and Remembrance in a Hindu Theory of History
My subject is the theory of a modern Hindu sect.1 The sect is the brahmd kumarZ movement, the Daughters of Brahma, and their theory of history is a modified version of the more general Hindu conception of cyclical world degeneration and renewal. This theory, it seems to me, raises in a particularly interesting way the question of what we mean by historical consciousness. Do we, or should we, mean only the awareness of the modern West? Or is more …
Glancing
In Hinduism great emphasis is given to visual interaction between deity and worshippers. Devotees wish to see and be seen by the gods, and believe that they will be benefited by doing so. Underlying this belief is a conception of "seeing" as an extrusive flow-of-seeing that brings seer and seen into actual contact. Under the right circumstances devotees are thereby enabled to take into themselves, by means of vision, something of the inner virtue…
The divine hierarchy
Hindu Mediumship in Singapore 1
Society in India. Volume I
Marriage and Malevolence
The Food of the Gods in Chhattisgarh
Analysis of Chhattisgarhi ritual reveals a common structural core which unifies ostensibly diverse ritual expressions. This structure is grounded in the purity-pollution contrast, especially as it relates to hierarchical distinctions, and ritual is therefore integrated with some of the most pervasive features of Chhattisgarhi social structure. Two elements are combined in ritual sequences: 1) the creation of a zone of purity within which the deit…
Glancing
In Hinduism great emphasis is given to visual interaction between deity and worshippers. Devotees wish to see and be seen by the gods, and believe that they will be benefited by doing so. Underlying this belief is a conception of "seeing" as an extrusive flow-of-seeing that brings seer and seen into actual contact. Under the right circumstances devotees are thereby enabled to take into themselves, by means of vision, something of the inner virtue…
The divine hierarchy
The Food of the Gods in Chhattisgarh
Analysis of Chhattisgarhi ritual reveals a common structural core which unifies ostensibly diverse ritual expressions. This structure is grounded in the purity-pollution contrast, especially as it relates to hierarchical distinctions, and ritual is therefore integrated with some of the most pervasive features of Chhattisgarhi social structure. Two elements are combined in ritual sequences: 1) the creation of a zone of purity within which the deit…
Absent Lord
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…
Redemptive encounters
Social Science Inside Out
Indigenous Feminism in a Modern Hindu Sect
Rejecting violence
In recent decades Agravāl leaders have been promoting a centre for caste pilgrimage at Agroha, the supposed place of Agravāl origin, and an associated Agravāl origin myth. Analysis reveals that this origin myth belongs to a class of similar origin myths found among North Indian trading castes. The central element in these myths is the ancient rite of sacrifice. The origin myths of the Khandelvāl Vaiśyas. Māheśvarıs, and Khandelvāl Jains all attem…
Sathya Sai Baba's Magic
This paper is an excursion in the anthropology of credibility. Regarded as a living deity by his many followers, Sathya Sai Baba is one of the most important of lndia's modern religious figures. Thepaper explores the role of the miraculous in his cult. Miracles attributed to the deity-saint are shown to be vehicles for establishing and maintaining relationships between him and his followers utilizing a transactional framework of general importanc…
Giving and Giving up
The Jinas, who are the principal objects of Jain worship, are believed to be entirely noninteractive with their worshippers. This fact has implications for the way ritual transactions between Jinas and their worshippers are conducted and conceived. An examination of the eightfold worship, a major daily rite among Jains, shows that ritual offerings are given by worshippers but not taken by any divine receiver. The act of giving does not establish …
Marriage and Malevolence
Amnesia and Remembrance in a Hindu Theory of History
My subject is the theory of a modern Hindu sect.1 The sect is the brahmd kumarZ movement, the Daughters of Brahma, and their theory of history is a modified version of the more general Hindu conception of cyclical world degeneration and renewal. This theory, it seems to me, raises in a particularly interesting way the question of what we mean by historical consciousness. Do we, or should we, mean only the awareness of the modern West? Or is more …
Hindu Mediumship in Singapore 1
Mirrored warriors
Monks and Miracles
Jainism is well known as a radically ascetic strategy for achieving liberation from the world''s bondage. It is less well known as a system of religious belief and practice embedded in social life. This article will examine Jainism as a symbolism of social identity. At the center of my inquiry is a puzzling cultural fact, the seemingly paradoxical claim by many nonviolent Jains to be descended from warlike Rājpūts. Despite its extreme emphasis on…
The Physiology of Redemption
Marriage and Malevolence
The Food of the Gods in Chhattisgarh
Analysis of Chhattisgarhi ritual reveals a common structural core which unifies ostensibly diverse ritual expressions. This structure is grounded in the purity-pollution contrast, especially as it relates to hierarchical distinctions, and ritual is therefore integrated with some of the most pervasive features of Chhattisgarhi social structure. Two elements are combined in ritual sequences: 1) the creation of a zone of purity within which the deit…
Society in India. Volume I
Hindu Mediumship in Singapore 1
The divine hierarchy
Glancing
In Hinduism great emphasis is given to visual interaction between deity and worshippers. Devotees wish to see and be seen by the gods, and believe that they will be benefited by doing so. Underlying this belief is a conception of "seeing" as an extrusive flow-of-seeing that brings seer and seen into actual contact. Under the right circumstances devotees are thereby enabled to take into themselves, by means of vision, something of the inner virtue…
Amnesia and Remembrance in a Hindu Theory of History
My subject is the theory of a modern Hindu sect.1 The sect is the brahmd kumarZ movement, the Daughters of Brahma, and their theory of history is a modified version of the more general Hindu conception of cyclical world degeneration and renewal. This theory, it seems to me, raises in a particularly interesting way the question of what we mean by historical consciousness. Do we, or should we, mean only the awareness of the modern West? Or is more …
The Physiology of Redemption
Sathya Sai Baba's Magic
This paper is an excursion in the anthropology of credibility. Regarded as a living deity by his many followers, Sathya Sai Baba is one of the most important of lndia's modern religious figures. Thepaper explores the role of the miraculous in his cult. Miracles attributed to the deity-saint are shown to be vehicles for establishing and maintaining relationships between him and his followers utilizing a transactional framework of general importanc…
Indigenous Feminism in a Modern Hindu Sect
Redemptive encounters
Giving and Giving up
The Jinas, who are the principal objects of Jain worship, are believed to be entirely noninteractive with their worshippers. This fact has implications for the way ritual transactions between Jinas and their worshippers are conducted and conceived. An examination of the eightfold worship, a major daily rite among Jains, shows that ritual offerings are given by worshippers but not taken by any divine receiver. The act of giving does not establish …
Redemptive Encounters
Living Masters The Lord as Guru
Social Science Inside Out
Monks and Miracles
Jainism is well known as a radically ascetic strategy for achieving liberation from the world''s bondage. It is less well known as a system of religious belief and practice embedded in social life. This article will examine Jainism as a symbolism of social identity. At the center of my inquiry is a puzzling cultural fact, the seemingly paradoxical claim by many nonviolent Jains to be descended from warlike Rājpūts. Despite its extreme emphasis on…
The Great Choice
The Āśrama System
Rejecting violence
In recent decades Agravāl leaders have been promoting a centre for caste pilgrimage at Agroha, the supposed place of Agravāl origin, and an associated Agravāl origin myth. Analysis reveals that this origin myth belongs to a class of similar origin myths found among North Indian trading castes. The central element in these myths is the ancient rite of sacrifice. The origin myths of the Khandelvāl Vaiśyas. Māheśvarıs, and Khandelvāl Jains all attem…
Absent Lord
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…
Mirrored warriors
Guardians of the transcendent
Vallely, Anne . Guardians of the transcendent: an ethnography of a Jain ascetic community . 296 pp., plates, fig., bibliogr . London, Toronto : Univ. Toronto Press , 2002 . £ 45.00 (cloth), £18.00 (paper) To what degree do the roles of worldly social life carry over into the monastic world? And, more specifically, to what extent and in what ways do worldly gender roles project into world-renouncers’ lives? Anne Vallely addresses these questions i…
Framing the Jina
Journal Article Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History. By John E. Cort Get access Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History. By John E. Cort. Oxford University Press, 2010. 398 pages. $74.00. Lawrence A. Babb Lawrence A. Babb Amherst College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 3, Sep…
Weber and the Jains
although Max weber is best known to non-specialists for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, a work as controversial as it is famous, he also wrote extensively on the world's other major religions, and this included the religions of india. in what follows, i examine what he had say about Jainism and some of the issues to which it gives rise. i begin with some Jain basics followed by a brief account of what weber himself had to say a…
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