Drawing upon both anthropological descriptions and primary Jain textual sources (particularly the Jñānasāra of the seventeenth century Śvetāmbara Jain master, Yaśovijaya), this chapter focuses on the particulars of how Jain worship and ritual are conducted, as well as on how these activities are conceptualized in the Jain tradition. The thesis will be that Jain ritual involves a twofold process...
The pluralistic turn in modern Hindu thought corresponds with the rise of an emphasis on direct experience of divine realities in this tradition. Both pluralism and a focus on experience have precedents in premodern Hindu traditions, but have become especially prominent in modern Hinduism. The paradigmatic example in the modern period of a religious subject embarking upon a pluralistic quest...