Violence and the Sikhs interrogates conventional typologies of violence and non-violence in Sikhism by rethinking the dominant narrative of Sikhism as a deviation from the ostensibly original pacifist-religious intentions and practices of its founders. This Element highlights competing logics of violence drawn from primary sources of Sikh literature, thereby complicating our understanding of the relationship between spirituality and violence, connecting it to issues of sovereignty and the relationship between Sikhism and the State during the five centuries of its history. By cultivating a non-oppositional understanding of violence and spirituality, this Element provides an innovative method for interpreting events of 'religious violence'. In doing so it provides a novel perspective on familiar themes such as martyrdom, Martial Race theory, warfare and (post)colonial conflicts in the Sikh context.
By:
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: New edition Dimensions:
Height: 177mm,
Width: 128mm,
Spine: 6mm
Weight: 100g ISBN:9781108728218 ISBN 10: 1108728219 Series:Elements in Religion and Violence Pages: 75 Publication Date:21 April 2022 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active