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1 online resource (87 pages) |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and violence, 2397-9496 |
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Elements in religion and violence, 2397-9496
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Violence and the Sikhs -- Contents -- 1 Representing Violence -- Probing the Pacifism-Violence Binary -- The "Dogmatic Image" of Violence -- Narrating Violence Through Different Orders of Time: Kal̄ and Akal̄ -- Bicameral Approach to Interpreting Violence -- 2 Guru Nānak's Sovereign Violence -- States of affairs-1 (kal̄) -- Lines of Flight 1 (akal̄) -- Tracking a Concept of Violence in Guru Nan̄ak's Philosophy -- Violating Ego -- The Word that Kills: Sword of the Spiritual Warrior (gurmukh) |
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Performing Sovereign Violence 1: Early Encounters with the Mughal State -- Hukam versus Hukum̄at -- Performing Sovereign Violence 2: Transmission of Guruship -- 3 Martyrdom, Militancy, and the Khālsā -- States of Affairs 2 (kal̄) -- Line of Flight 1: Martyrdom or Execution? -- State of Affairs 2: Performing Sovereign Violence 3Creation of the Khal̄sa ̄ -- Scene 1: The Willing Sacrifice -- Scene 2: Initiation of the Double-Edged Sword -- waheguru ji ka Khal̄sa,̄ waheguru ji ki fateh -- Scene 3: The Guru's Self-Immolation -- Line of Flight-2: Economies of Violence in the Khal̄sa ̄Myth |
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States of Affairs 3: Warfare and Violence in the Colonial PeriodFrom Guerilla Operations to a Standing Khal̄sa ̄Army -- Constructing the Sikhs as a "Martial Race" -- Anti-Colonial Violence and Nonviolence -- Lines of Flight 2: Capturing and Performing Sovereign Violence 4 -- 4 "1984": Clash of Sovereignties? -- States of Affairs 4 (kal̄) -- Nonviolent Resistance Confronts Indian State Violence -- "Systemic Violence": Recasting of Sikhs as the "Internal Enemy" -- Rise of Bhindranwale -- Lines of Flight 3 (akal̄) -- The Untimely in "1984": Performing Sovereign Violence 5 -- References |
| Summary |
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 |
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| Subject |
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Sikhism
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Sikhism.
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Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Sikhism
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Sikhism
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108610353 |
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1108610358 |
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