Oxford University Press, 2011. — 272 p. Challenging the commonly accepted belief that the distinctive rituals, ceremonies, and cultural practices associated with the Khalsa were formed during the lifetime of the Tenth and last Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, Purnima Dhavan reveals how such markers of Khalsa identity evolved slowly over the course of the eighteenth century. By focusing...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 446 p. Sikhism traces its beginnings to Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 and died in 1538 or 1539. With the life of Guru Nanak the account of the Sikh faith begins, all Sikhs acknowledging him as their founder. Sikhism has long been a little-understood religion and until recently they resided almost exclusively in...
New Delhi: Tulika; Indian History Congress, 2001. — 228 p. — ISBN: 81-85229-17-1. This volume is a part of the research and publication programme of the Indian History Congress to commemorate the tercentenary of the Khalsa. It presents translations of all major Persian sources of the Sikh history up to 1765, when Sikh power was established over the Punjab. These Sources offer...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is ranked as the world's fifth largest religion. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11 indicated that they were being mistaken for Muslims, and suggests that the raising of sufficient...
London: 1923. — 170 p. This little book is written with the object of giving to the general public some idea of one of our most loyal Indian sects; though its numbers are comparatively few, yet it played no small share in upholding the traditions of the British Empire in no less than six theatres of war. No true picture would be complete without some account of the environment...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 156 p. — ISBN 978-0-7391-7874-4 This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates challenges that require complex negotiations between other ethnic minorities as well as the national majority. Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced...
DK, 2023. — 326 p. — ISBN 978-0-7440-7752-0 Dive into the history, philosophy, and essence of the Sikh faith, and trace its evolution. At the turn of the 15th century, Guru Nanak embarked on a series of journeys across the Indian subcontinent and instituted an equitable community and an egalitarian religion, built upon the values of inclusion, service, and kindness. Sikhs...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 672 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-969930-8. The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide...
Сикхский миссионерский центр, 1997. — 432 с. Цитата: "С целью ознакомления общественности с основными положениями религии сикхов Сикхский миссионерский центр опубликовал на английском языке книгу Религия сикхов. Книга была разослана в библиотеки крупных университетов всего мира, в том числе в 35 университетских библиотек бывшего Советского Союза. Настоящее издание представляет...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2007. — 384 с. — (Мир Востока). — ISBN 978-5-352-02156-9. Научно-популярная книга петербургских индологов Е. Н. Успенской и И. Ю. Котина посвящена одной из интереснейших религий Индии — сикхизму. В книге рассказывается об основателе религии — гуру Нанаке, других гуру — вероучителях, продолжателях его дела и, как верят сикхи, его инкарнациях,...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2007. — 384 с. — (Мир Востока). — ISBN 978-5-352-02156-9. Научно-популярная книга петербургских индологов Е. Н. Успенской и И. Ю. Котина посвящена одной из интереснейших религий Индии — сикхизму. В книге рассказывается об основателе религии — гуру Нанаке, других гуру — вероучителях, продолжателях его дела и, как верят сикхи, его инкарнациях,...
М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2011. — 474 с. — ISBN: 978-5-87317-721-9. В монографии впервые в отечественной науке излагается подробная история конфессиональной общины сикхов Панджаба в XVI ‒ середине XIX в. с акцентом на политический и военный аспекты этой истории. Хронологические рамки работы ‒ три с половиной столетия от возникновения в Панджабе сикхизма до включения...
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