An unprecedented practical insight into the reality of multiple religious participation (in this case Christian and Sikh), balancing and challenging the more theoretical descriptions that are developing.

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.

Chapter iv. "Hymns from the Grnth Sahib, and from the Granth of the tenth guru: p. 63-114

This book is written with the intent to invite Sikhs to explore their own religion and to consider how the LDS Christian doctrines can add to their faith. It is an attempt to persuade Sikhs to consider how the teachings of Jesus Christ can enhance their faith. The Restored church has much to offer Sikhs to understand not only their own faith but also to give them a better perspective of God`s dealings with all mankind. New scriptures have come forth by a prophet which will give further light and knowledge of God`s plan for all mankind.

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.