ABSTRACT The dominant diaspora-development discourse privileges rational imperatives and focuses on remittances to households while ignoring diaspora philanthropy to organisations. In India, religious organisations receive significant levels of diaspora philanthropy yet the motivations and cultural meanings behind such transfers, or its transnational dimensions are little understood. I examine these themes through in-depth interviews with 24 Jains in UK, U.S.A and Singapore who have supported Veerayatan, a Jain faith-based organisation established by Jain nuns to deliver welfare services in India over an extensive period. I contend that diasporic Jains display a hybrid logic of philanthropy; humanitarian ideals intersect with shared Jain religious norms to motivate giving. Support for Veerayatan is sustained through social capital; embeddedness in lateral networks of co-religionists as well as ties with the nuns in the homeland. This transnational engagement is a marker of citizenship and multiple belongings, of being British, American or Singaporean differently for class-privileged diasporic Jains.

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“帮助他人是真正的耆那教”：享有特权的海外耆那教徒通过跨国慈善事业向印度耆那教信仰组织确认公民身份和多种财产

摘要 占主导地位的侨民发展话语优先考虑理性要求，并侧重于向家庭汇款，而忽略了侨民对组织的慈善事业。在印度，宗教组织接受了大量侨民慈善事业，但人们对这种转移背后的动机和文化意义，或其跨国维度知之甚少。我通过深入采访英国、美国和新加坡的 24 位耆那教徒来研究这些主题，他们支持 Veerayatan，这是一个耆那教修女建立的耆那教信仰组织，在很长一段时间内在印度提供福利服务。我认为散居海外的耆那教徒表现出慈善事业的混合逻辑；人道主义理想与共同的耆那教宗教规范相交以激励捐赠。对 Veerayatan 的支持是通过社会资本来维持的；嵌入在同宗教者的横向网络中，以及与祖国修女的联系。这种跨国参与是公民身份和多重财产的标志，对于阶级特权的散居耆那教徒来说，是英国人、美国人或新加坡人的不同身份。