10.20381/ruor-5357
Saucier, Mélanie
Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2012
Jains
Jainism
Animal Rights
Religion and Ecology
Jainism and Ecology
Environmental ethics
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2012-01-12
2012-01-12
2012
2012
en
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20563
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.