Project

Examination of the Religious Other: Jainism advocating itself in the Dharmaparīkṣās

Code
01D25716
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theology and religious studies
Keywords
India Jain studies
 
Project description

The proposed project will elucidate aspects of the oppositional history of the Jain community by studying how Jains characterized their others, namely the Brahmans, in the Dharmaparīkṣās, which are narrative texts written from the tenth century onwards. The texts will be studied diachronically and in comparison to historical information on the Jains using theories of ‘othering’ as analytical framework.