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Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity
220 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
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This book brings together new approaches to the study of Sikh religion, culture and ethnicity being pursued in the diaspora by Sikh academics in western universities in Britain and North America. An important aspect of the volume is the diversity of topics that are engaged - including film and gender theory, theology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, semiotics and race theory - and brought to bear on... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: New Perspectives in Sikh Studies; Chapter 2 Canon Formation in the Sikh Tradition, Gurinder Singh Mann; Chapter 3 Eighteenth Century Khalsa Identity: Discourse, Praxis and Narrative, Jeevan Deol; Chapter 4 Thinking Differently about Religion and History: Issues for Sikh Studies, Arvind-pal Singh Mandair; Chapter 5 On the Hermeneutics of Sikh Thought and Praxis, Balbinder Bhogal; Chapter 6 Making Punjabi Literary History, Christopher Shackle; Chapter 7 The Mirror and the Sikh: The Transformation of Ondaatje’s Kip, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh; Chapter 8 The Limits of ‘Conventional Wisdom’: Understanding Sikh Ethno-nationalism, Gurharpal Singh; Chapter 9 Imagining Punjab: Narratives of Nationhood and Homeland among the Sikh Diaspora, Darshan S. Tatla; Chapter 10 What Has a Whale Got to Do With It? A Tale of Pogroms and Biblical Allegories, Harjot Oberoi;
Biography
Christopher Shackle, Gurharpal Singh, Arvind-pal Singh Mandair
