The King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty
To theorize Jain sovereignty, this essay takes up Ernst Kantorowicz’s underlying query of what happens when a king dies. In turning to medieval Jain authors such as Jinasena, we see how sovereignty and renunciation were mutually constituted such that the king’s renunciation completely subverts the p...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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MDPI
2021
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Religions
Année: 2021, Volume: 12, Numéro: 11 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Jinasena
B Renunciation B Sovereignty B Digambara B Jainism B Asceticism B Political Theology B Kantorowicz B Ādipurāṇa B Kingship |
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