[INDOLOGY] Tenth Annual Mahavir Jayanti Lecture at FIU (April 7) - Dr. Anil Mundra

[Aleksandra Restifo]

Apologies for cross-posting.



Dear Colleagues,



I am happy to invite you to the Tenth Annual Mahavir Jayanti Lecture at
FIU. The lecture, *“Beyond Religious Toleration: The Jain Haribhadra's
Engagements with Religious Others,”* will be delivered by *Dr. Anil
Mundra* (Rutgers
University-New Brunswick). It is an in-person event that will be
live-streamed as a webinar. Please register here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-mahavir-jayanti-lecture-tickets-587912631507>
.



Time: 7pm EDT, Friday, April 7, 2023

Location: SASC 100, MMC, FIU

Webinar: https://www.facebook.com/fiusipa/



*Beyond Religious Toleration: The Jain Haribhadra's Engagements with
Religious Others*

Jainism is sometimes touted as the tolerant religion par excellence.
Meanwhile, many political theorists have urged moving beyond mere
toleration, which can imply condescension or aloofness. In this
presentation, Dr. Mundra will argue that the Śvetāmbara scholar-monk
Haribhadrasūri personifies a Jain tradition of robust engagement with other
religious ideas that avoids many of the hazards of toleration as typically
understood in modern democratic liberalism.



*Guest Speaker*: Dr. Anil Mundra is the Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral
Fellow in the study of Jainism at Rutgers University. His work examines how
Jain philosophers and others deal with religious diversity and
disagreement. His doctoral dissertation, "No Identity Without Diversity:
Haribhadrasūri's Anekāntavāda as a Jain Response to Doctrinal Difference,"
focuses on how the classical Jain theory of non-one-sidedness allows an
influential Śvetāmbara Jain scholar-monk to intervene in philosophical
debates and define a Jain identity within them. He aims to bring such
classical discourses into conversation with contemporary philosophical
concerns, showing how each can enrich and strengthen the other. He received
his PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 2022,
where he also completed his MA and BA. Before coming to Rutgers, he taught
at the College of the Holy Cross, Brandeis University, and Loyola Marymount
University.





Best wishes,

--

Aleksandra (Sasha) Restifo

Assistant Professor

Bhagwan Mahavir Professorship in Jain Studies

Department of Religious Studies

Florida International University

arestifo at fiu.edu
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