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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Autor principal:	Sarah Pierce Taylor
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	sovereignty kingship renunciation asceticism Jainism Digambara Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fb73dabc83cd4f169f9c57ae29abf9fd2021-11-25T18:53:06ZThe King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty10.3390/rel121109862077-1444https://doaj.org/article/fb73dabc83cd4f169f9c57ae29abf9fd2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/986https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444To 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 problem of the king’s death. If the fiction of Jain kingship properly practiced culminates in renunciation, then such a movement yields up a new figure of the ascetic self-sovereign. Renunciation does not sever sovereignty but extends it into a higher spiritual domain. Worldly and spiritual sovereignty share a metaphorical language and set of techniques that render them as adjacent but hierarchical spheres of authority. In so doing, Jain authors provide a religious answer to a political problem and make the political inbuilt into the religious, thereby revealing their interpenetrating and bounded nature.Sarah Pierce TaylorMDPI AGarticlesovereigntykingshiprenunciationasceticismJainismDigambaraReligions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENReligions, Vol 12, Iss 986, p 986 (2021)
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description	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 problem of the king’s death. If the fiction of Jain kingship properly practiced culminates in renunciation, then such a movement yields up a new figure of the ascetic self-sovereign. Renunciation does not sever sovereignty but extends it into a higher spiritual domain. Worldly and spiritual sovereignty share a metaphorical language and set of techniques that render them as adjacent but hierarchical spheres of authority. In so doing, Jain authors provide a religious answer to a political problem and make the political inbuilt into the religious, thereby revealing their interpenetrating and bounded nature.
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The King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty

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