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1	Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains Saucier, Mélanie 12 January 2012 (has links) This thesis examines the intersection between religion and environmental ethics in Jainism. Religious traditions, as they confront the challenges of modernity, are redefining their traditional mores and narratives in ways that appear, and are, contemporary and relevant. One of the most striking ways in which Jains are accomplishing this, is through their self-presentation as inherently “ecological” through their use of “Western” animal rights discourse in tandem with traditional Jain doctrine. This essay seeks to explore the ways in which this is accomplished, and how these new understandings are being established and understood by members of this “living” community. Jains Jainism Animal Rights Religion and Ecology Jainism and Ecology Environmental ethics
2	Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains Saucier, Mélanie 12 January 2012 (has links) This thesis examines the intersection between religion and environmental ethics in Jainism. Religious traditions, as they confront the challenges of modernity, are redefining their traditional mores and narratives in ways that appear, and are, contemporary and relevant. One of the most striking ways in which Jains are accomplishing this, is through their self-presentation as inherently “ecological” through their use of “Western” animal rights discourse in tandem with traditional Jain doctrine. This essay seeks to explore the ways in which this is accomplished, and how these new understandings are being established and understood by members of this “living” community. Jains Jainism Animal Rights Religion and Ecology Jainism and Ecology Environmental ethics
3	Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains Saucier, Mélanie 12 January 2012 (has links) This thesis examines the intersection between religion and environmental ethics in Jainism. Religious traditions, as they confront the challenges of modernity, are redefining their traditional mores and narratives in ways that appear, and are, contemporary and relevant. One of the most striking ways in which Jains are accomplishing this, is through their self-presentation as inherently “ecological” through their use of “Western” animal rights discourse in tandem with traditional Jain doctrine. This essay seeks to explore the ways in which this is accomplished, and how these new understandings are being established and understood by members of this “living” community. Jains Jainism Animal Rights Religion and Ecology Jainism and Ecology Environmental ethics
4	Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains Saucier, Mélanie January 2012 (has links) This thesis examines the intersection between religion and environmental ethics in Jainism. Religious traditions, as they confront the challenges of modernity, are redefining their traditional mores and narratives in ways that appear, and are, contemporary and relevant. One of the most striking ways in which Jains are accomplishing this, is through their self-presentation as inherently “ecological” through their use of “Western” animal rights discourse in tandem with traditional Jain doctrine. This essay seeks to explore the ways in which this is accomplished, and how these new understandings are being established and understood by members of this “living” community. Jains Jainism Animal Rights Religion and Ecology Jainism and Ecology Environmental ethics
5	Youth-led Environmental Awareness: Initiatives Towards a Jain Faith Community Empowerment Otterbine, Joseph R. 08 1900 (has links) This project employs participatory action research methods in efforts to create a community specific environmental curriculum for the high school age youth at the only Jain faith community in the North Texas region. Aligned with the community’s goals, the youth led in deciding, creating, and carrying out initiatives that were aimed at increasing the level of awareness about environmental issues amongst community members. The research done by the youth aimed at looking at environmental issues through the lens of Jain doctrine. The final creation of a curriculum as a living document to be used by the youth in efforts to promote critical thinking skills and class discussion continues the participatory model. The curriculum encourages experiential and interpretative learning, which grants ownership of the topics to the youth themselves and ultimately empowering them to learn more and spread the importance of being environmentally friendly. participatory action research environmentalism Jainism youth empowerment Jains -- Education -- Texas.
6	An Ethnographic Study of Sectarian Negotiations among Diaspora Jains in the USA Mehta, Venu Vrundavan 29 March 2017 (has links) This thesis argued that the Jain community in the diasporic context of the USA has invented a new form of Jainism. Sectarian negotiations are the distinguishing marks of the diaspora Jain community and their invented form of Jainism. Based on ethnographic study that is, interviews and observations conducted at four different sites (Jain temples/communities) from June-August 2016, the thesis examined the sectarian negotiations among the diaspora Jain community in the USA and the invented Jain tradition that is resulting from these negotiations. The central questions of the research on which this thesis is based were: 1) what are the levels, processes and results of sectarian negotiations within the Jain diaspora community in the USA, and 2) what is the nature and characteristic of the new form of Jainism, the invented tradition; and how do Jains in the USA experience and use it. Jainism Jain Diaspora US Jain Diaspora US Jain Communities Jain Identity Common Jain Identity Jain Sects Sectarian Inter-Sectarian Cross-Sectarian Multi-Sectarian Jain Philosophy Pathshala Anekantvada Jain Temple Jain Society Jain Community Jain Center Sectarian Negotiations Invented Tradition New Form of Jainism Diaspora Studies Jainism in America Jainism in the US Asectarian Indian Diasporas Invention of New form of Jainism Ethnographic Study of Jains in the USA Ethnography Ethnographic Study of US Jain Diaspora Arts and Humanities Religion

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