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Project

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

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01D25716

Duration

01 October 2016 → 30 September 2021

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Eva De Clercq

Fellow

Heleen De Jonckheere

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- 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.

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