The Routledge Companion To The Life And Legacy Of Guru Hargobind

Author : Pashaura Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040106366
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Life and Legacy of Guru Hargobind written by Pashaura Singh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion studies the life and legacy of Guru Hargobind (1590–1644), the Sixth Guru of the Sikh tradition. It highlights the complex nature of Sikh society and culture in the historical and socio-economic context of Mughal India. The book reconstructs the life of Guru Hargobind by exploring the “divine presence” in history and memory. It addresses the questions of why and how militancy became explicit during Guru Hargobind’s spiritual reign and examines the growth of the Sikh community’s self-consciousness, separatism, and militancy as an integral part of the process of empowerment of the Sikh Panth. A unique contribution, this book provides a multidisciplinary paradigm in the reconstruction of Guru Hargobind’s life and legacy. It will be indispensable for students of Sikh studies, religious studies, history, sociology of religion, anthropology, material culture, literary and textual studies, politics, militancy, and South Asian studies.

Author : Paul Michael Taylor
Publisher : Roli Books
ISBN 13 : 9788194969129
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sikh Art written by Paul Michael Taylor and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading scholars of Sikhism and of Sikh art to assess and interpret the remarkable art resource known as the Kapany Collection, using it to introduce to a broad public the culture, history, and ethos of the Sikhs. Fifteen renowned scholars contributed essays describing the passion and vision of Narinder and Satinder Kapany in assembling this unparalleled assemblage of great Sikh art, some of which has been displayed in exhibitions around the globe. The Kapanys' legacy of philanthropic work includes establishing the Sikh Foundation (now celebrating its 50th year) and university endowments for Sikh studies. Through this profusely illustrated book's chapters, scholars examine the full range of Sikh artistic expression and of Sikh history and cultural life, using artworks from the Kapany Collection.

Author : Pashaura Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199087733
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guru Granth Sahib written by Pashaura Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three closely related questions in the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition: how the text of the Adi Granth came into being, the meaning of gurbani, and how the Adi Granth became the Guru Granth Sahib. The censure of scholarly research on the Adi Granth was closely related to the complex political situation of Punjab and brought the whole issue of academic freedom into sharper focus. This book addresses some of these issues from an academic perspective. The Adi Granth, the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, means ‘first religious book’ (from the word ‘adi’ which means ‘first’ and ‘granth’ which means ‘religious book’). Sikhs normally refer to the Adi Granth as the Guru Granth Sahib to indicate a confession of faith in the scripture as Guru. The contents of the Adi Granth are commonly known as bani (utterance) or gurbani (the utterance of the Guru). The transcendental origin (or ontological status) of the hymns of the Adi Granth is termed dhur ki bani (utterance from the beginning). This particular understanding of revelation is based upon the doctrine of the sabad, or divine word, defined by Guru Nanak and the succeeding Gurus. This book also explores the revelation of the bani and its verbal expression, devotional music in the Sikh tradition, the role of the scripture in Sikh ceremonies, and the hymns of Guru Nanak and Guru Arjan.

Author : Pashaura Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sikhism and History written by Pashaura Singh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at a conference.

Author : Pashaura Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199087725
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib written by Pashaura Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of key issues concerning the phenomenon of scriptural adaptation. It offers a new understanding of religious pluralism, stressing the need to enter into dialogue with an 'open attitude' by honoring the individual commitments and maintaining differences in mutual respect and dignity.

Author : James Wynbrandt
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081606184X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Pakistan written by James Wynbrandt and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: A Brief History of Pakistan attempts to answer these questions in a concise yet thorough account. By illuminating the nation's past, this book offers readers a detailed perspective of Pakistan today and enables them to consider soundly how the country, once a birthplace of civilization, might change in the future.

Author : Virinder S. Kalra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350041769
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan written by Virinder S. Kalra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan suggests new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures constitute the bordering logics inherent within enactments of these boundaries, and positions hegemony and resistance through popular religion as an important indication of wider developments of political and social change. The book also shows how borders are continually being maintained through violence at national, community and individual levels. By exploring selected sites and expressions of piety including shrines, texts, practices and movements, Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal argue that the popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarised picture between formal, institutional religion, nor the 'enchanted universe' of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities. Instead, the book presents a picture of 'religion' as a realm of movement, mobilization, resistance and power in which gender and caste are connate of what comes to be known as 'religious'. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality of the complex, dynamic and contested relations that characterize everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, the book highlights how popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism and theological frameworks while simultaneously reflecting gender/caste society.

Author : Nānak (Guru)
Publisher : [New Delhi] : Orient Longmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hymns of Guru Nanak written by Nānak (Guru) and published by [New Delhi] : Orient Longmans. This book was released on 1969 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Veena Das
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520247450
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Words written by Veena Das and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe.

Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438110383
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of World Religions written by Robert S. Ellwood and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.