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Author | : Nripinder Singh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Sikh ethics |
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This study examines on the basis of historical evidence the ethical perceptions of the Sikh community at the turn of the last century.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Sikhism |
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Download Perspectives on the Sikh Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nripinder Singh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1454 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Sikh ethics |
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Author | : Sardar Singh Bhatia |
Publisher | : Publication Bureau Pubjabi University |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Articles previously published in Journal of religious studies.
Author | : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2009-10-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 023151980X |
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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 | : Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441153667 |
Download Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sikhism's short but relatively eventful history provides a fascinating insight into the working of misunderstood and seemingly contradictory themes such as politics and religion, violence and mysticism, culture and spirituality, orality and textuality, public sphere versus private sphere, tradition and modernity. This book presents students with a careful analysis of these complex themes as they have manifested themselves in the historical evolution of the Sikh traditions and the encounter of Sikhs with modernity and the West, in the philosophical teachings of its founders and their interpretation by Sikh exegetes, and in Sikh ethical and intellectual responses to contemporary issues in an increasingly secular and pluralistic world. Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed serves as an ideal guide to Sikhism, and also for students of Asian studies, Sociology of Religion and World Religions.
Author | : Harjot Oberoi |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1994-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226615929 |
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In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism, and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through an examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikhism recognized multiple identities based in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. As a result, religious identities were highly blurred and competing definitions of Sikhism were possible. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity, bringing about the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism. A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Author | : Jagbir Jhutti-Johal |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1847062725 |
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Exciting new introduction to contemporary Sikhism And The issues and debates facing it in modern society.
Author | : Pashaura Singh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2003-09-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199087733 |
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This book examines three closely related questions in the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition: how the text of the Adi Granth came into being, the meaning of gurbani, and how the Adi Granth became the Guru Granth Sahib. The censure of scholarly research on the Adi Granth was closely related to the complex political situation of Punjab and brought the whole issue of academic freedom into sharper focus. This book addresses some of these issues from an academic perspective. The Adi Granth, the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, means ‘first religious book’ (from the word ‘adi’ which means ‘first’ and ‘granth’ which means ‘religious book’). Sikhs normally refer to the Adi Granth as the Guru Granth Sahib to indicate a confession of faith in the scripture as Guru. The contents of the Adi Granth are commonly known as bani (utterance) or gurbani (the utterance of the Guru). The transcendental origin (or ontological status) of the hymns of the Adi Granth is termed dhur ki bani (utterance from the beginning). This particular understanding of revelation is based upon the doctrine of the sabad, or divine word, defined by Guru Nanak and the succeeding Gurus. This book also explores the revelation of the bani and its verbal expression, devotional music in the Sikh tradition, the role of the scripture in Sikh ceremonies, and the hymns of Guru Nanak and Guru Arjan.
Author | : Amandeep Singh Madra |
Publisher | : Warrior Saints |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-02-16 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9780956016850 |
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Published to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Sikh Brotherhood, this is a collection of over 100 images depicting Sikh prowess in war - photographs covering the last 150 years, together with early prints and paintings.