Violence and the Sikhs

Arvind-pal S. Mandair (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-72821-8 (ISBN)

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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.

1. Sikhī(sm) and sui generis Violence; 2. Guru Nānak's Sovereign Violence; 3. Martyrdom, Militancy & the Khālsā; 4. 1984: A Clash of Sovereignties?; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Religion and Violence
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 177 mm
Gewicht	100 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-108-72821-9 / 1108728219
ISBN-13	978-1-108-72821-8 / 9781108728218
Zustand	Neuware