The Sikh Religion
Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9788186142325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9788186142325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gobind Singh Mansukhani
Publisher: Hemkunt Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9788170101819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains 125 questions about Sikh religion. This book also features quotations from Guru Granth Sahib.
Author: Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010-08-03
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0812200179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence—either as victims or as perpetrators—gives new insights into both the sources of violent conflict and the potential for its resolution. Drawing on her extensive interviews and conversations with Sikh militants, Cynthia Keppley Mahmood presents their accounts of the human rights abuses inflicted on them by the state of India as well as their explanations of the philosophical tradition of martyrdom and meaningful death in the Sikh faith. While demonstrating how divergent the world views of participants in a conflict can be, Fighting for Faith and Nation gives reason to hope that our essential common humanity may provide grounds for a pragmatic resolution of conflicts such as the one in Punjab which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the past fifteen years.
Author: Gurinder Singh Mann
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text presents an overview of Sikh history and religiosity by firmly placing it against the backdrop of other religious traditions of the world. It includes a basic introduction to the faith, its history, beliefs, practices and modern developments.
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: Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-10-23
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 0231147244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Jaspal Singh Mayell
Publisher: Jaspal Mayell
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780977790708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Owen Cole
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction to the Sikh religion, its history, scriptures and practice.
Author: W. Owen Cole
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-15
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1135797609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first to appear in Curzon's well respected 'Popular Dictionary' series.
Author: W.H. McLeod
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990-10-15
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0226560856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"McLeod is a renowned scholar of Sikhism. . . . [This book] confirms my view that there is nothing about the Sikhs or their religion that McLeod does not know and there is no one who can put it across with as much clarity and brevity as he can. In his latest work he has compressed in under 150 pages the principal sources of the Sikh religion, the Khalsa tradition and the beliefs of breakaway sects like the Nirankaris and Namdharis. . . . As often happens, an outsider has sharper insight into the workings of a community than insiders whose visions are perforce restricted."—Khushwant Singh, Hindustan Times