Format:
1 online resource (87 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108610353
,
9781108728218
Series Statement:
Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and violence
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2022)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108728218
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mandair, Arvind-Pal Violence and the Sikhs Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781108728218
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sikhismus
;
Pazifismus
;
Gewalt
;
Religionskrieg
DOI:
10.1017/9781108610353
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