Sikh Studies Book V
Author | : Dr. H.S. Singha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sikh gurus |
ISBN | : 9788170102519 |
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Author | : Dr. H.S. Singha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sikh gurus |
ISBN | : 9788170102519 |
Author | : Pashaura Singh |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191004111 |
The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. A number of essays within this collection also provide a more practical dimension, written by artists and practitioners of the tradition. The handbook is divided into eight thematic sections that explore different 'expressions' of Sikhism. Historical, literary, ideological, institutional, and artistic expressions are considered in turn, followed by discussion of Sikhs in the Diaspora, and of caste and gender in the Panth. Each section begins with an essay by a prominent scholar in the field, providing an overview of the topic. Further essays provide detail and further treat the fluid, multivocal nature of both the Sikh past and the present. The handbook concludes with a section considering future directions in Sikh Studies.
Author | : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2009-10-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 023151980X |
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.
Author | : Pashaura Singh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199699305 |
This handbook innovatively combines the ways in which scholars diverse fields (including philosophy, psychology, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics) have integrated the study of Sikhism within critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion.
Author | : Dr. H.S. Singha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Prayer |
ISBN | : 9788170102526 |
Author | : Pashaura Singh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2019-04-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0192508431 |
This new dictionary provides over 350 accessible definitions of the terms that the growing number of students of Sikhism will encounter. It covers beliefs, practices, festivals, sacred sites, and principal languages, as well as the social and religious processes through which Sikhism has evolved. A major focus is the teachings of the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, and doctrinal developments under subsequent Gurus. Incorporating the 500-year history of Sikhism, from its birth in northern India to its more recent spread around the world, it covers the interplay between the Sikh tradition and other religious traditions including Hindu and Sufi. It is an invaluable first reference for students and teachers of Sikhism, religious studies, South Asian studies, and philosophy, as well as the related disciplines of history, sociology, and anthropology as well as for all practicing Sikhs and anyone with an interest in Sikh religion and culture.
Author | : Dr. H.S. Singha |
Publisher | : Hemkunt Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Sikhism |
ISBN | : 9788170102588 |
Author | : Louis E. Fenech |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0197532861 |
On the 30th of March, 1699, the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh called together a special assembly at the Keshgarh Fort at Anandpur. Following the morning devotions, the Guru asked for a volunteer, saying, "The entire sangat is very dear to me; but is there a devoted Sikh who will give his head to me here and now? A need has arisen at this moment which calls for a head." One man arose and followed the Guru out of the room. When the Guru returned to the assembly with a bloodied sword, he asked for another volunteer. Another man followed. This was repeated three more times, until at last the Guru emerged with a clean sword and all five men alive and well. Those five volunteers would become the first disciples of the Khalsa, the martial community within the Sikh religion, and would come to be known as the Panj Piare, or the Cherished Five. Despite the centrality of this group to modern Sikhism, scholarship on the Panj Piare has remained sparse. Louis Fenech's new book examines the Khalsa and the role that the the Panj Piare have had in the development of the Sikh faith over the past three centuries.
Author | : Dr. H.S. Singha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788170102502 |
Author | : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136846344 |
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.