Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism - 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 Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism write by W.H. McLeod. This book was released on 1990-10-15. Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
Sikhism (Textual sources for the study of religion).
Sikhism (Textual sources for the study of religion). - 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 Sikhism (Textual sources for the study of religion). write by W.H. McLeod. This book was released on . Sikhism (Textual sources for the study of religion). available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Studying the Sikhs
Studying the 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 Studying the Sikhs write by John Stratton Hawley. This book was released on 1993-07-01. Studying the Sikhs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This basic guide and resource book targets four fields—religious studies, history, world literature, and ethnic or migration studies—in which Sikhism is now receiving greater attention. The authors explain the problems of studying and interpreting Sikhism, and opportunities for integrating Sikh studies into a broader curriculum in each field. They also provide a sense of the Sikh community's own approach to education, and evaluate materials and approaches at the North American university level. Included are a sample syllabus with an explanatory essay, a bibliographical guide, a glossary, and a general bibliography. Gurinder Singh Mann's review of his course on Sikhism is an effective mini-guide to the field as a whole.
Sikhism
Sikhism - 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 Sikhism write by W. H. McLeod. This book was released on 1997. Sikhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Religion and the Specter of the West
Religion and the Specter of the West - 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 Religion and the Specter of the West write by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. This book was released on 2009-10-22. Religion and the Specter of the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
