Course Details - REL 298 601 FALL 2009

FALL 2009

From Mahavira to Mahatma Gandhi: The Nonviolent Jain Traditions of India
REL 298 - 601 INTERNET
Class Number:	28887
Prerequisites:	None.
Credit Hours:	3. credit(s)
Corequisites:	None.
Required Lab:	None.
Restrictions:	None.
	Restrictions may be on all or some of the seats. For information visit: http://distance.ncsu.edu/courses/enrollment-requirements.php

Instructor:	Pankaj Jain
Address:	N/A
E-mail:	pjain5@ncsu.edu
Phone:	(919) 515 9307
Fax:	N/A

Course Description: Selected studies in religion that do not appear regularly in the curriculum. Topics will be announced for each semester in which the course is offered.

Course Informational Video :	Click here for video.
Primary Delivery Format :	Internet
Course Website :	http://www.indicuniversity.org/ ** Access to the website may be restricted to registered students or not available until the start of the semester.
Learning Management System :	Vista , Elluminate
Additional Technology Requirements :	Unity E-mail (http://webmail.ncsu.edu)
Lab Information :	None.

NCSU Campus Visits : Please contact the instructor for additional information.

Other Attendance Requirements : None.

Course Requirements:

Jainism is one of the oldest surviving religions that originated in India. Jains believe that every soul is divine and has the potential to achieve God-consciousness. Jainism was revived by a lineage of 24 enlightened ascetics culminating with Mahavira (600 BCE).

In the modern world, it is a small but influential religious minority with about five million followers in India, and successful growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere. Historically, Jains have influenced other religious, ethical, political and economic spheres in India and beyond.

The most renowned nonviolent figure of our times Mahatma Gandhi was inspired by nonviolence and other Jain practices. Gandhi in turn inspired Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, and several other nonviolent movements globally.

Course Materials:

Please contact the instructor for additional information.

REQUIRED: The Jains by Paul Dundas. Second. 2002. Routledge.

OPTIONAL: Jains in the world: religious values and ideology in India by John Cort. 2001. Oxford University Press.

OPTIONAL: The lives of the Jain Elders by Hemacandra and R. C. C. Fynes. 1998. Oxford University Press.

OPTIONAL: Riches and renunciation: religion, economy, and society among the Jains by James Laidlaw. 1995. Clarendon Press.

Miscellaneous Information: None.


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