HEROISM, SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT, AND TRIADIC BONDS IN JAIN AND CHRISTIAN MENDICANCY AND ALMSGIVING.

Despite first impressions to the contrary, religions as radically different as Jainism and Christianity can shed light on each other's practices of mendicancy and almsgiving. They can do so because of a trio of general categories under which certain elements of Jain and Christian practices can be su...

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Published in:	Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 47 - 81
Main Author:	Munzer, Stephen R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2001
Subjects:	Jaina giving Christian giving (Church finance) Begging Religions Jainism & other religions
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