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008			130304s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781441102317 (pbk.)
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100	1		_aMandair, Arvind-pal Singh.
245	1	0	_aSikhism : _ba guide for the perplexed / _cArvind-Pal Singh Mandair.
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Pub. Plc, _c2013.
300			_ax, 241 pages ; _billustrations ; paperback ; _c22 cm.
490	0		_aGuides for the perplexed
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPt 1. Evolution of the Sikh Tradition. 1. Guru Nanak and His Early Successors -- 2. Martyrdom and Militancy : Rise of the Khalsa -- 3. Modernity and Colonialism -- Pt 2. Teachings and Practices. 4. Way of Life -- 5. Sikh philosophy -- Pt 3. Pluralism and its Challenges. 6. Sikh ethics -- 7. Sikhs and the Public Sphere.
520			_a Sikhism's short but relatively eventful history provides a fascinating insight into the working of misunderstood and seemingly contradictory themes such as politics and religion, violence and mysticism, culture and spirituality, orality and textuality, public sphere versus private sphere, tradition and modernity. This book presents students with a careful analysis of these complex themes as they have manifested themselves in the historical evolution of the Sikh traditions and the encounter of Sikhs with modernity and the West, in the philosophical teachings of its founders and their interpreta.
650		0	_aSikhism.
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