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TEXT AND CONTEXT IN JAINISM (5th JAINA STUDIES WORKSHOP AT SOAS)

 

Friday 13.6.2003, School of Oriental and African Studies, Brunei Gallery,

Room 211

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

10.00-10.15 Tea and Coffee

 

10.15-11.30 Niraj Jain (Satna, M.P.)

 

"The development of statues as idols"

 

11.30-12.15 Peter Flògel (SOAS)

 

"Relic worship amongst the Jains"

 

12.15-13.00 Marie-Claude Mahias (Paris)

 

"Ahardana, the gift of food to Digambara ascetics (muni) in modern India"

 

13.00-14.30 Lunch

 

14.30-15.15 Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo Miyazaki, Japan)

 

"Ontological thoughts in Jainism"

 

15.15-16.00 Kanubhai & Kalpana Sheth (Ahmedabad)

 

"The Jaina Manuscripts at the Wellcome Institute"

 

16.00-16.30 Tea and Coffee

 

16.30-17.15 Reynell, Josephine (Oxford)

 

"Religious practice and the constitution of personhood among Svetambar

Murtipujak Jain women in Jaipur"

 

17.15-18.00 Emma Salter (Cardiff)

 

"Lay attitudes towards mendicancy in modern Jainism with reference to the

followers of Srimad Rajacandra"

 

 

Contact: Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and

Humanities,

SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG, 7898 4028,

rw35

 

Everyone is welcome.

 

yours sincerely

 

Dr Peter Flügel

Department of the Study of Religions

University of London

London WC1H OXG, UK

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