Organizing Jainism in India and England

'While this book is a technical book aimed at scholars of religion and anthropologists, the clarity of Banks' prose expands his audience to other interested readers ... Banks' study will serve as an invaluable resource for those interested in religions of emigrd'es, lay religiosity, Jainism and religions of India.' The Religious Studies Review 'well-revised dissertation ... Although this is a technical book aimed at scholars of religion and anthropologists, the clarity of Banks's prose expands his audience to other interested readers. Banks's study will serve as an invaluable resource for persons interested in religions of emigres, lay religiosity, Jainism, and religions of India' Religious Studies Review 'a descriptive one, and the first of its kind written by a Western author about Jainism and the changes it has under gone ... Extensive field-work, covering a parallel study of the groups in Jamnagar in India and Leicester in England has gone into this work of research. The various dominant and smaller Jatis of Jainism are discussed vividly by the writer.' Girija Rao, Hindustan Times 'This volume is unique in providing a most interesting account of anthropological fieldwork in two Jain communities, not unrelated, but separated in time and space ... Adorned with attractive 20 black and white photographs, the study provides a fascinating account of Jainism in a traditional Gujarati city as well as a city in Britain where Jains, to use Richard Burghart's term, live in an alien milieu ... Banks provides a lucid and articulate account of his fieldwork.' Asian Affairs 'An anthropological study such as this provides an excellent tool both for introducing Jainism as a religious tradition and for looking at the transplantation of a religious tradition to the United Kingdom.' Theological Book Review 'a pioneering study of Jainism in three locales ... With remarkable details and sensitivity, Banks narrates contemporary Jain life in Saurashtra and Leicester ... this book provides significant information on the practical observance of contemporary Jainism' Jinamanjari