A Complete Guide to Sikhism

A Complete Guide to Sikhism
Title A Complete Guide to Sikhism PDF eBook
Author Jagraj Singh
Publisher Unistar Books
Pages 376
Release 2009
Genre Sikhism
ISBN 9788171427543

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Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Title Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed PDF eBook
Author Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 257
Release 2013-06-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 1441153667

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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.

Sikhism

Sikhism
Title Sikhism PDF eBook
Author Eleanor M. Nesbitt
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 177
Release 2016
Genre Religion
ISBN 0198745575

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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.

The Making of Sikh Scripture

The Making of Sikh Scripture
Title The Making of Sikh Scripture PDF eBook
Author Gurinder Singh Mann
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 206
Release 2001
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 0195130243

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The Adi Granth - the primary scripture of the Sikhs - comprises approximately 3000 hymns. This work attempts to construct a comprehensive picture of the making of Sikh "canon", drawing on the recently discovered early manuscripts as well as the extensive secondary literature on the topic.

Sikhism

Sikhism
Title Sikhism PDF eBook
Author Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 289
Release 2011-02-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 0857719629

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Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive identity. This sense of difference, forged during Sikhism's fierce struggles with the Mughal Empire, is still symbolised by the 'Five Ks' ('panj kakar', in Punjabi), those articles of faith to which all baptised Sikhs subscribe: uncut hair bound in a turban; comb; special undergarment; iron bracelet and dagger (or kirpan) - the unique marks of the Sikh military fraternity (the word Sikh means 'disciple' in Punjabi). Yet for all its ongoing attachment to the religious symbols that have helped set it apart from neighbouring faiths in South Asia, Sikhism amounts to far more than just signs or externals. Now the world's fifth largest religion, with a significant diaspora especially in Britain and North America, this remarkable monotheistic tradition commands the allegiance of 25 million people, and is a global phenomenon. In her balanced appraisal, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh reviews the history, theology and worship of a community poised between reconciling its hereditary creeds and certainties with the fast-paced pressures of modernity. She outlines and explains the core Sikh beliefs, and explores the writings and teachings of the Ten Sikh Gurus in Sikhism's Holy Scriptures, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib (more usually called just the 'Granth'). Further chapters explore Sikh ethics, art and architecture, and matters of gender and the place of women in the tradition. The book attractively combines the warm empathy of a Sikh with the objective insights and acute perspectives of a prominent scholar of religion.

The Sikh Religion

The Sikh Religion
Title The Sikh Religion PDF eBook
Author Max Arthur Macauliffe
Publisher
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Release 1996
Genre
ISBN 9788186142325

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Religion and the Specter of the West

Religion and the Specter of the West
Title Religion and the Specter of the West PDF eBook
Author Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Publisher Columbia University Press
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.