RT Book
T1 Violence and the Sikhs
T2 Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and violence
A1 Mandair, Arvind-Pal ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1800109431
AB 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.
OP 87
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2022)
CN 294.6
SN 978-1-108-61035-3
SN 978-1-108-72821-8
K1 Violence : Religious aspects : Sikhism
K1 Nonviolence : Religious aspects : Sikhism
K1 Pacifism : Religious aspects : Sikhism
DO 10.1017/9781108610353