Sikhism and Women - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198060025 ISBN 13 : 9780198060024

Editeur : OUP India, 2010

Synopsis

This collection of original essays focuses on various aspects of gender in Sikhism. Divided into three sections- text and scripture, Sikh women in India, and women in diasporic contexts- it deals with women's lives and religious experiences. The first part discusses the way aesthetics and religion merge together in the unitary experience of the sacred in the Sikh tradition. It also explores the understandings of gender in Sikh theology and society. The second and the third sections are largely ethnographic studies grounded in historical and textual analysis. First work of its kind, this volume engages with issues like religion, rituals, literature, sexuality, and nationalism and their link with identity-formation of Sikh women. It analyses current significant issues of gender and religion and provides an empirical as well as theoretical structure to an area hitherto unexplored.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Doris R. Jakobsh is Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198060025
• ISBN 13: 9780198060024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Éditeur: Jakobsh Doris
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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