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ISBN: 1904292577
Publisher: DUNCAN BAIRD
Subtitle: ORIGINS. BELIEFS. PRACTICES HOLY TEXTS. SACRED PLACES
Author: JENNIFER OLDSTONE-MOORE
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| Weight | 0.35 kg |
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| ISBN | 1904292577 |
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| Publication Date | 2003 |
| Pages | 112 |
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In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Harjot Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through a searching examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikh tradition was not concerned with establishing distinct religious boundaries. Most Sikhs recognized multiple identities grounded in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. Consequently, religious identities were highly blurred and several competing definitions of what constituted a Sikh 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 social and cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity. The ethnocentric logic of a new elite dissolved alternative ideals under 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 important book calls into question basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities. An essential book for the field of South Asian religions, this work is also an important contribution to cultural anthropology, postcolonial studies, and the history of religion in general.
ISBN: 0226615928
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Subtitle: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY IN THE SIKH TRADITION
Author: HARJOT OBEROI
ISBN: 0472082590
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: TOBIN SIEBERS
This book is the product of dialogue between a group of leading British Muslim and Christian scholars concerned about the alleged danger to the ‘West’ of Islamic ‘fundamentalism’. It analyses the ethical and legal principles, rooted in both traditions, underlying any use of armed force in the modern world. After chapters on the history, theology and laws of war as seen from both sides, the book applies its conclusions to (a) the 1990-91 Gulf War and (b) the Bosnian Conflict. It concludes that Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilisations’ thesis is a dangerous myth.
ISBN: 0333638115
Publisher: MACMILLAN PRESS AND ST MARTIN’S PRESS
Subtitle: MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN APPROACHES TO WAR AND PEACE
Author: HARFIYAH ABDEL
ISBN: 0520249143
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Author: JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY
