This 2013 book is excellent:
Living Jainism : An Ethical Science 2013
Aidan D. Rankin; Kanti V. Mardia
David Frawley's Foreword begins:
Jainism is one of the most important spiritual and religious traditions in the world – and one of the oldest, with its origins going probably well back over 2500 years. Perhaps most notably, Jainism has a many-sided literature as extensive as that of any other of the world’s great religions, including art, science and mathematics, though most of it has not been given its proper study or rightful place in world thought.
Though the number of its current adherents may be relatively small, somewhat like Judaism, Jainism has an influence far beyond its numbers. It has great philosophical and mystical traditions and its followers are usually well educated and highly cultured. Though it mainly has adherents in India, the orientation of Jainism has always been towards the whole of life, and it is now gaining respect throughout the world.
Yet Jainism has its own unique nature and teachings, which can be quite different from religion in the western sense of the term. Jainism is not a belief system, but rather a way of right relationship with the living universe that we are inherently part of. It is not based upon a theology of a Creator that we must all bow down to, but upon recognition of the sacred nature of all life. Jainism is a spiritual science or way of higher knowledge and should be treated as such, if we want to really understand and appreciate the great gifts of insight that it can bestow upon us
