Author: Gurbachan Singh TalibPublisher:
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Category : Sikhism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Impact of Guru Gobind Singh on Indian Society
Author: Gurbachan Singh TalibPublisher:
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Category : Sikhism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Religion and the Specter of the West
Author: Arvind-Pal S. MandairPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231147244
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena.
Religion, Civil Society and the State
Author: J. P. Singh UberoiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Religion, civil society and the state form the three dimensions of this semiological study of Sikhism. The author argues for a recognition of the figure of the martyr - whose victory is over the "self" - rather than the figure of the hero, whose victory is over the victim.
Sikh Nationalism
Author: Gurharpal SinghPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100921344X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on A. D. Smith's ethno-symbolic approach, Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani use a new integrated methodology to understanding the historical and sociological development of modern Sikh nationalism. By emphasising the importance of studying Sikh nationalism from the perspective of the nation-building projects of India and Pakistan, the recent literature on religious nationalism and the need to integrate the study of the diaspora with the Sikhs in South Asia, they provide a fresh approach to a complex subject. Singh and Shani evaluate the current condition of Sikh nationalism in a globalised world and consider the lessons the Sikh case offers for the comparative study of ethnicity, nations and nationalism.
Sikhism Today
Author: Jasabīra Siṅgha ĀhalūwālīāPublisher:
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Category : Sikhism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Sikhism
Author: Eleanor M. NesbittPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198745575
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
An accessible introduction to the world's fifth largest religion, this work presents Sikhism's meanings and myths, and its practices, rituals, and festivals, also addressing ongoing social issues such as the relationship with the Indian state, the diaspora, and caste.
Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity
Author: Arvind-Pal S. MandairPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136846271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book brings together new approaches to the study of Sikh religion, culture and ethnicity being pursued in the diaspora by Sikh academics in western universities in Britain and North America. An important aspect of the volume is the diversity of topics that are engaged - including film and gender theory, theology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, semiotics and race theory - and brought to bear on the individual contributors' specialism within Sikh studies, thereby helping to explode previously static dichotomies such as insider vs. outsider or history vs. tradition. The volume should have strong appeal both to an academic market including students of politics, religious studies and South Asian studies, and to a more general English-speaking Sikh readership.
Sikhism and Its Impact on Indian Society
Author: Hazara SinghPublisher:
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Category : Religion and sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Sikhs and Sikhism
Author: I. J. SinghPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Perceptive Essays That Challenge The Sikhs And Intrigue The Non-Sikhs. They Debate Religious, Historical, Social And Political Issues And Recast Age Old Traditions And Practices In Concepts And Language That Are Contemporary And Relevant.
Liberating Sikhism from 'the Sikhs'
Author: Jasabīra Siṅgha ĀhalūwālīāPublisher: Unistar Books
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Category : Sikhism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Articles on Sikh doctrines and polity.