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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.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Pashaura Singh |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Release |
: 2014-03 |
File |
: 673 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199699308 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Pashaura Singh |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Release |
: 2014-03-27 |
File |
: 673 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191004117 |
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Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions. In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but also regional, national, transnational, and personal identities. The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra. Its rare to find such diverse accounts of religious travel collected in a single volume, where scholars engagements with individual places of pilgrimage in India and with the journeys surrounding them are truly in conversation with one another. For readers, it makes for a deeply enlightening journey. It also raises an interesting question: Is the reality of India powerful enough that it absorbs divergent expressions of religious tourism, making of them a common fabric? Here, so unusually, readers have the materials to decide. John Stratton Hawley, author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
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Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Andrea Marion Pinkney |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Release |
: 2018-08-20 |
File |
: 340 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438466033 |
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This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Doris R. Jakobsh |
Publisher |
: MDPI |
Release |
: 2021-09-01 |
File |
: 242 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783036511900 |
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This companion studies the life and legacy of Guru Hargobind (1590–1644), the Sixth Guru of the Sikh tradition. It highlights the complex nature of Sikh society and culture in the historical and socio-economic context of Mughal India. The book reconstructs the life of Guru Hargobind by exploring the “divine presence” in history and memory. It addresses the questions of why and how militancy became explicit during Guru Hargobind’s spiritual reign and examines the growth of the Sikh community’s self-consciousness, separatism, and militancy as an integral part of the process of empowerment of the Sikh Panth. A unique contribution, this book provides a multidisciplinary paradigm in the reconstruction of Guru Hargobind’s life and legacy. It will be indispensable for students of Sikh studies, religious studies, history, sociology of religion, anthropology, material culture, literary and textual studies, politics, militancy, and South Asian studies.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Pashaura Singh |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2024-08-09 |
File |
: 303 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781040106327 |
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This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts, polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations. Experts in the field present reflections on historically specific contexts in which a guru comes into being, becomes part of a community, is venerated, challenged or repudiated, generates a new canon, remains unique with no clear succession or establishes a succession in which charisma is routinized. The guru emerges and is sustained and routinized from the nexus of guruship, narratives, performances and community. The contributors to the book examine this nexus at specific historical moments with all their elements of change and contingency. The book will be of interest to scholars in the field of South Asian studies, the study of religions and cultural studies.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: István Keul |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2022-09-30 |
File |
: 283 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781000654929 |
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Genre |
: Arts |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 2017 |
File |
: 340 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112108957181 |
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Genre |
: Sikhism |
Author |
: Gobind Singh Mansukhani |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1989 |
File |
: 234 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015020791946 |
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At the heart of Sikhism are the ten Gurus, who transferred authority from individual leaders to the scriptures and the community itself. "Sikhism" explores how their distinctive beliefs emerged from the Hindu background of the times, how a number of separate sects split off, and how far the ideas of sexual equality have been observed in practice. Illustrations.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: W. H. McLeod |
Publisher |
: Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Release |
: 1997 |
File |
: 376 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015061754613 |
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1979 |
File |
: 244 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015046456599 |