Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity write by Bob van der Linden. This book was released on 2024-11-18. Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the concept of ‘cultivation of culture’. It investigates diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, and considers their role in the making of a continuous living tradition. The volume focuses particularly on the imperial encounter and intellectual interaction between coloniser and colonised. It emphasises the enduring importance of the modern rational approach of the Singh Sabha (Tat Khalsa) reformers in defining a normative Sikh tradition. In so doing, the author reflects on the importance of philological research and the complexity of modern knowledge production in relation to the formation of cultural identities. The chapters offer a critical historical overview of the changes in the performance and reception of Sikh devotional music in the context of the community’s successive encounters with the Mughals, the British and globalisation. They also provide new insights into the life and work of Max Arthur Macauliffe, author of the classic The Sikh Religion (1909), and a contextualised discussion of contemporary Sikh drawings by Emily de Klerk. Taking a global, interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.
The Construction of Religious Boundaries
The Construction of Religious Boundaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Construction of Religious Boundaries write by Harjot Oberoi. This book was released on 1994-12-15. The Construction of Religious Boundaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism, and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through an examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikhism recognized multiple identities based in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. As a result, religious identities were highly blurred and competing definitions of Sikhism were possible. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity, bringing about the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism. A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Sikh Identity
Sikh Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sikh Identity write by Pashaura Singh. This book was released on 1999. Sikh Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sikhs Have Struggled With Questions Of Identity For Over Five Centries. Various Events During This Century Have Forced Sikhs In The Punjab And Diaspora To Rethink Assumptions And Relationships Both Within The Community And Outside. Papers In The Volume Address The Core Issue Of Sikh Identity And Are Organized In Three Sections. Section One Deals With Issues Relating To Symbols Of Identity And Sikh Tradition; Section Two Relates To Recent Sikh History And Issues Of Identity And Section Three Addresses Political, Social Issues And Contemporary Sikh Identity. An Glossary Of Punjabi Terms And Index Help The Reader Better Understand The Presentation.
Global Sikhs
Global Sikhs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Sikhs write by Opinderjit Kaur Takhar. This book was released on 2023-03-13. Global Sikhs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings a broad, holistic approach to the study of the phenomena of the global Sikh community referred to collectively as the Panth. With contributions by an interdisciplinary range of experts, the volume provides insight into current debates and discussions around Sikh identity in the twenty-first century. It examines the terms Sikh, Sikhism and ‘Sikhi’ and considers how those ‘outside of the margins’ fit into larger definitions of the wider Panth. Both the secular and religious dimensions of being a Sikh are explored and lived experience is a central theme throughout. The chapters engage with issues of authority and diversity as well as representation as Sikhs become increasingly settled and active within their diasporic locales. The book includes a variety of case studies and makes a valuable contribution to the growing field of Sikh studies.
Sikh Women in England
Sikh Women in England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sikh Women in England write by S. K. Rait. This book was released on 2005. Sikh Women in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study by a Sikh woman who came to England after growing up and going to university in the Punjab illustrates the changes in the values of Sikh women in England over the years and between the migrants and British born Sikhs. Her research subjects, all based in Leeds, come from varied backgrounds and together make up a picture of Sikh women that is transferable to England and the UK. The book is arranged as follows Chapter 1 The backgrounds of the Sikh women Chapter 2 Religious values Chapter 3 Women in Sikhism and Sikh society Chapter 4 The social life of Sikh women Chapter 5 Cultural values Chapter 6, entitled Listen to Me provides excerpts from the women's stories about their own lives, and the conclusion confirms that Sikh women have adapted well to life on a different continent and have a strong sense of identity. Foreword by Professor Kim Knott
