Jainism & Ecology

Edited By : Mr. Christopher Key Chapple

Publisher : Centre for the Study of World religions, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Press.

The book contains essays by various eminent authors around several themes, connected with ecology in Jain religion including Jain theories and challenges to the possibility of a Jain environmental ethic. Since Jainism advocates against harming any life, it can be called as ecological religion. Some authors have mentioned about historical principles and the practice of vegetarianism to show that Jainism is ecological. The opinions given by different authors are somewhat controversial but on the whole, the book offers interesting reading material.

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