Violence and the Sikhs

by Arvind-Pal S Mandair and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108728219
• ISBN13: 9781108728218
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"