Author: Louis E. Fenech
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1442236019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sikhism traces its beginnings to Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 and died in 1538 or 1539. With the life of Guru Nanak the account of the Sikh faith begins, all Sikhs acknowledging him as their founder. Sikhism has long been a little-understood religion and until recently they resided almost exclusively in northwest India. Today the total number of Sikhs is approximately twenty million worldwide. About a million live outside India, constituting a significant minority in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Many of them are highly visible, particularly the men, who wear beards and turbans, and they naturally attract attention in their new countries of domicile. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sikhism covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key persons, organizations, the principles, precepts and practices of the religion as well as the history, culture and social arrangements. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sikhism.
Author: Institute of Sikh Studies (Chandīgarh, India)
Publisher: Chandigarh, India : Institute of Sikh Studies
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13:
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Author: Joseph Davey Cunningham
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 478
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eleanor M. Nesbitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0198745575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies
Publisher: South Asia Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some fourteen million Sikhs worldwide are heirs today to a tradition of faith recalling the devotional spirituality of Guru Nanak, who lived in the Punjab five hundred years ago. The twentieth century has witnessed a heightening of Sikhs' self-awareness as a community with an identity and aspirations distinct from their Hindu as well as their Muslim neighbours. Overseas migration to countries such as Canada has also produced new challenges to Sikhs to think through the question of what the core of their tradition is and what aspects of their heritage are central in times far removed from Guru Nanak's and places distant from the Punjab. Twenty-four authoritative studies by scholars on four continents range across the contemporary Sikh experience in India and overseas. The contributors include experts on history, religion, literature, linguistics, politics, sociology and anthropology.
Author: Prithi Pal Singh
Publisher: Lotus Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9788183820752
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