Violence and the Sikhs
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 vio...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and violence
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sikhism
/ Pacifism
/ Violence
/ War of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Nonviolence
Religious aspects
Sikhism
B Violence Religious aspects Sikhism B Pacifism Religious aspects Sikhism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2022) |
| ISBN: | 1108610358 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108610353 |