This important study looks at the genesis, development, and contemporary status of the Adi Granth as Sikh scripture. It offers a new perspective on the general notion of canon, its formation, its relationship with a religious community, and the processes through which the community appropriates and interprets it.

The Guru Granth Sahib: Canon, Meaning and Authority

Religion & Spirituality

Singh, Pashaura

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

Oxford University Press

The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib 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.

The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib: Sikh Self-Definition and the Bhagat Bani

This important study looks at the genesis, development, and contemporary status of the Adi Granth as Sikh scripture. It offers a new perspective on the general notion of canon, its formation, its relationship with a religious community, and the processes through which the community appropriates and interprets it.

The Guru Granth Sahib: Canon, Meaning and Authority (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

This is a comprehensive study of Guru Arjan (1563-1606), the fifth Guru of the Sikhs. The book reconstructs his life based on history, memory, tradition, and mythic representation

Life and Work of Guru Arjan

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. A number of essays within this collection also provide a more practical dimension, written by artists and practitioners of the tradition. The handbook is divided into eight thematic sections that explore different "expressions" of Sikhism. Historical, literary, ideological, institutional, and artistic expressions are considered in turn, followed by discussion of Sikhs in the Diaspora, and of caste and gender in the Panth. Each section begins with an essay by a prominent scholar in the field, providing an overview of the topic. Further essays provide detail and further treat the fluid, multivocal nature of both the Sikh past and the present. The handbook concludes with a section considering future directions in Sikh Studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies (Oxford Handbooks)

Fenech, Louis E.

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.

The Routledge Companion to the Life and Legacy of Guru Hargobind: Sovereignty, Militancy, and Empowerment of the Sikh Panth (Sikh Literature, Culture and Society)

Reference

Routledge India

Contributed papers presented at a seminar held on August 29-31, 1996.

Sikh Identity- Continuity and Change

Barrier

Social Sciences

Manohar Pubns

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The Guru Granth Sahib: Canon, Meaning and Authority

The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib: Sikh Self-Definition and the Bhagat Bani

The Guru Granth Sahib: Canon, Meaning and Authority (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Life and Work of Guru Arjan

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies (Oxford Handbooks)

The Routledge Companion to the Life and Legacy of Guru Hargobind: Sovereignty, Militancy, and Empowerment of the Sikh Panth (Sikh Literature, Culture and Society)

Sikh Identity- Continuity and Change