Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory最新文献

{"title":"Aspects of Sikh axiology: Three essays","authors":"Bhupinder Singh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2020.1804196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2020.1804196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper presents three short essays on three specific institutions or symbolic representations, namely, Akal Takht Sahib, purusharthas, and the ‘demon’ king Ravana in order to highlight certain aspects of Sikh axiology as I see it. The essays reveal that the integration of the spiritual (sannyas), the material (grihasta) and the temporal (rajya) in the life of individual and society lies at the heart of Sikhism.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"69 1","pages":"448 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72660099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatializing popular Sufi shrines in Punjab: Dreams, memories, territoriality","authors":"H. Grewal","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2020.1825051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2020.1825051","url":null,"abstract":"In Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality (2019), historian of popular Panjabi religion Yogesh Snehi offers an analysis of the re-emergence of popular venerat...","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"105 1","pages":"350 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79440698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The visibility and arrival of the transnational new Sikh middle class in the cinematic experience of the turbaned hero Diljit Dosanjh: Its implication for emerging Sikh identity politics","authors":"Kumool Abbi","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2019.1611165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1611165","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper attempts to understand the emergence of a New Sikh middle class in Panjab and its growing, transnational visibility in a transnational spread through the kaleidoscope of Panjabi cinema. The paper seeks to map this new middle class both locally and globally with the emergence of the icon of the New Sikh middle class, the turbaned Diljit Dosanjh. His persona and the popularity of his films give a vivid portrayal of the visibility of this transnational New Sikh middleclass, the imagination of which transcends local, national and transnational borders.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"23 1","pages":"308 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88685639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parent perceptions of school/teacher effectiveness with Punjabi-Sikh students and their families","authors":"Cassandra Jean Drake (Singh)","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2020.1741180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2020.1741180","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Participants in this study included Sikh/Punjabi parents who had a child enrolled in the K-12 school system. These parents were invited to complete a survey and participate in a focus group. The purpose of this study was to gauge the current experiences of children within the Sikh/Punjabi community by eliciting parents for their perceptions of whether schools and educators possess an understanding of their identity/culture and respond accordingly. Findings indicate that parents believed their child's school/teacher respected their cultural background but felt that the ability to understand and engage with them as Punjabi-Sikhs was lacking.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"66 1","pages":"269 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91224436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sundri, then and now","authors":"Doris R. Jakobsh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2019.1674518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674518","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines Bhai Vir Singh's novella, Sundri (1898) from the context of the Singh Sabha reform movement (1880–1920). Sundri, Vir Singh's fictional heroine, became an important and idealized site of female identity construction during this time. Bhai Vir Singh's Sundri will be juxtaposed with a pixelated version, a recent animated film by the same name. Similar to the novella, the animated Sundri too can be understood as a highly particularized, contemporary construct of Sikh women's identity, created, more than a century later, but similarly, during a period of intense scrutiny of Sikh women's religious identity.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"753 1","pages":"101 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76907901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Concept work with Michael Nijhawan’s Precarious Diasporas","authors":"R. S. Soni","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2018.1545190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2018.1545190","url":null,"abstract":"Rethinking their mission statement in 2013, Timothy Mitchell and Anupama Rao, the editors of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, note that the ways in which theories and methods of the humanities and social sciences ‘relate to regions, and how regions generate theories and methods of their own, are issues of great interest, even urgency, to the contemporary academy’ (135). Such great interest and urgency pertain, moreover, to practices of ‘comparative or connective scholarship, especially where comparison or connection is itself a subject for theorization’ (135). Notably, while the term diaspora appears neither in CSSAAME’s mission statement nor in its accompanying background statement, it certainly both resonates with and complicates the question of how disciplines ‘relate to regions, and how regions generate theories and methods of their own’; for, the ascendance of multidisciplinary diaspora studies is indicative of an important shift from the boundedness of traditional area studies to the relative openness of ‘transregions, where hitherto unknown forms of economic interaction, religious faith, literary culture, and the like are being discovered’ (135). Diasporas, of course, solicit from us a sustained, and always situated, labor of thinking transnationally and thus transregionally. Yet, precisely how do forms of transregion specific to the historical production of diasporas, including global chains of migration and encounters with various regimes of citizenship, generate theories and methods of their own? How exactly does the study of diaspora factor into and inform major themes or concepts that preoccupy the humanities and social sciences writ large today? What does diaspora entail now from our disciplinary ways of thinking? Such questions are the impetus for this feature section, which takes the form of a theory colloquium on Michael Nijhawan’s The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: Violence, Memory, Agency (2016). Exemplifying what Mitchell and Rao describe as ‘comparative or connective scholarship’ whereby ‘comparison or connection is itself a subject for theorization’ (2013, 135), Nijhawan’s Precarious Diasporas contributes to social anthropologies of transnationalism, diasporic position and identity, violence, juridical reasoning and asylum law, citizenship, and religion via its juxtaposition and crosshatching of research into Sikh and Ahmadiyya diasporas since 1984. Socially and politically, 1984 is a pivotal anniversary for both international communities. For Sikhs, it is the year of the military assault on Darbar Sahib, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and systematic government-sanctioned pogroms against India’s Sikhs. For Ahmadis, it is the year of a presidential ordinance that, after decades of anti-minority violence and constitutional amendments reclassifying Ahmadis as non-Muslims, ‘made it de facto illegal for Ahmadis to claim official status as a religious organization and prac","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"25 1","pages":"148 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87079284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Philosophical transgression and self cultivation in the Purātan Janamsākhī: Bhāī Vīr Singh and modern Sikh reading practices","authors":"H. Grewal","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2019.1674520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674520","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines narratological changes made in Bhāī Vīr Singh's Purātan Janamsākhī (1926). These changes encode an alternate narrative logic for producing images of a past that entrenches ‘religious’ identity at the center of cognitive self-becoming for individual Sikh moderns. Philology enacts a philosophical transgression to invent an autodialogic structure through grammatological changes and the incorporation of the paratextual apparatus. Two effects include: (1) facilitating a ratiocinating reading phenomenology to produce colonized, subjugated Sikh religious identity; (2) ignoring gurbānī, the language of the Srī Guru Granth Sāhib, and its poiesis. Alternate engagements begin after this recognition.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"52 1","pages":"66 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75768103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ ਦੇ ਸੰਦਰਭ ਵਿੱਚ ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ","authors":"Zameerpal Kaur","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2020.1685061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2020.1685061","url":null,"abstract":"ਸਾਰ ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ (Ecocriticism) 70 ਵਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਵਿਕਸਿਤ ਹੋਈ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਵਿਧੀ ਹੈ| ਇਸ ਵਿਧੀ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਸਾਹਿਤ ਨੂੰ ਵਾਤਾਵਰਨ ਅਤੇ ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਆਲੇ- ਦੁਆਲੇ ਪ੍ਰਤਿ ਸੁਚੇਤਤਾ ਦੇ ਸੰਦਰਭ ਵਿੱਚ ਪੜ੍ਹਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ| ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ ਦੇ ਅੰਤਰਗਤ ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਜੀਵਨ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ- ਨਾਲ ਸਮੁੱਚੇ ਬ੍ਰਹਿਮੰਡ, ਜੀਵ- ਜੰਤੂਆਂ, ਜੰਗਲੀ ਜੀਵਨ, ਭੋਜਨ – ਪ੍ਰਣਾਲੀ (Food Chain) ਵਿੱਚ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਦੀ ਥਾਂ, ਜੈਵਿਕ ਵਿਭਿੰਨਤਾ (Bio- diversity), ਪ੍ਰਕ੍ਰਿਤਕ ਸਮਤੋਲ (Ecological balance), ਪ੍ਰਦੂਸ਼ਣ, ਕੀਟਨਾਸ਼ਕਾਂ ਦੀ ਵਰਤੋਂ ਅਤੇ ਇਸਦੇ ਦੁਰ- ਪ੍ਰਭਾਵ ਆਦਿ ਪ੍ਰਤਿ ਬ੍ਰਹਿਮੰਡਕ ਚੇਤਨਾ ਉਪਰ ਬਲ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ| ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ ਇੱਕ ਅੰਤਰ- ਅਨੁਸ਼ਸਨੀ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਵਿਧੀ ਹੈ| ਇਹ ਵਿਧੀ ਸਾਹਿਤਕ ਕ੍ਰਿਤਾਂ ਦਾ ਵਿਸ਼ਲੇਸ਼ਣ ਕਰਦੇ ਹੋਏ ਜੀਵ-ਵਿਗਿਆਨ, ਮਾਨਵ- ਵਿਗਿਆਨ, ਵਾਤਾਵਰਨ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ, ਸਮਾਜ-ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ, ਨਾਰੀਵਾਦ, ਉਤਰ-ਬਸਤੀਵਾਦ, ਸੱਭਿਆਚਾਰਕ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧ ਆਦਿ ਵੱਖ- ਵੱਖ ਅਨੁਸ਼ਾਸਨਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਅੰਤਰ- ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਟੀਆਂ ਗ੍ਰਹਿਣ ਕਰਦੀ ਹੈ| ਜਦ ਕਿ ਜੀਵ- ਵਿਗਿਆਨ, ਵਾਤਾਵਰਨ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ ਅਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਕ੍ਰਿਤਕ ਸਮਤੋਲ ਆਦਿ ਨਾਲ ਇਸ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਵਿਧੀ ਦਾ ਬਹੁਤ ਨਜਦੀਕੀ ਸਬੰਧ ਹੈ| ਇਸ ਵਿਧੀ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਸਾਹਿਤਕ ਕ੍ਰਿਤਾਂ ਦੀ ਵਾਤਾਵਰਨ ਪ੍ਰਤਿ ਵਿਨਾਸ਼ਕ ਜਾਂ ਸਹਾਇਕ ਭੂਮਿਕਾ ਦੀ ਪੜਚੋਲ ਕੀਤੀ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ| ਪਦਮ ਭੂਸ਼ਨ ਐਵਾਰਡ ਵਿਜੇਤਾ ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ, ਸਾਹਿਤ, ਧਰਮ, ਦਰਸ਼ਨ, ਚਿੰਤਨ, ਸਮਾਜ ਸੁਧਾਰ ਦੇ ਖੇਤਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਬਹੁਪੱਖੀ ਸ਼ਖਸੀਅਤ ਹੈ| ‘ਆਧੁਨਿਕ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਾਹਿਤ ਦੇ ਪਿਤਾਮਾ’ ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੂੰ ‘ਛੋਟੀਆਂ ਕਵਿਤਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਵੱਡੇ ਕਵੀ’ ਅਤੇ ‘ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਦੇ ਵਰਡਵਰਥ’ ਵਜੋਂ ਵੀ ਜਾਣਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ| ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਵੀਹਵੀਂ ਸਦੀ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਤਿਨਿਧ ਕਵੀ ਹੈ, ਜਿਸ ਦੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਦਾ ਸਮੁੱਚਾ ਆਲਾ- ਦੁਆਲਾ ਕੁਦਰਤ ਅਤੇ ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਜੀਵਨ ਉਪਰ ਅਧਾਰਿਤ ਹੈ| ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਦੇ ਅੰਤਰਗਤ ਸਿਰਜਨਾਤਮਕਤਾ, ਰੱਹਸਵਾਦ, ਰੁਹਾਨੀਅਤ, ਕਲਪਨਾ ਅਤੇ ਅਨੁਭਵ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਗਟਾਵਾ ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਜੀਵਨ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਆਪਣੀ ਹੋਂਦ ਗ੍ਰਹਿਣ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ| ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਜੀਵਨ ਤੋਂ ਬਿਨਾਂ ਜੰਗਲੀ ਜਾਨਵਰਾਂ, ਪਸ਼ੂ – ਪੰਛੀ, ਝਰਨੇ, ਪਹਾੜ, ਦਰਿਆ ਆਦਿ ਗੈਰ- ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਹੋਂਦਾ ਅਤੇ ਵਰਤਾਰਿਆਂ ਲਈ ਵੀ ਓਨਾ ਹੀ ਸੰਵੇਦਨਸ਼ੀਲ ਹੈ| ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ ਦੀ ਮੁਖ ਧਾਰਨਾ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਕਿਸੇ ਵੀ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ, ਕੁਦਰਤ ਜਾਂ ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਵਾਤਾਵਰਨ ਉੱਪਰ ਹਾਵੀ ਨਹੀ ਹੋ ਸਕਦਾ ਅਤੇ ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਸੋਮਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਕੁਵਰਤੋਂ ਉਪਰ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਦਾ ਕੋਈ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ| ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀਆਂ ਬਹੁਤ ਸਾਰੀਆਂ ਕਵਿਤਾਵਾਂ ਜਿਵੇਂ ‘ਪਿੰਜਰੇ ਪਿਆ ਤੋਤਾ’, ‘ਗੁਲਾਬ ਦਾ ਫੁੱਲ ਤੋੜਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਨੂੰ’, ‘ਇੱਛਾਬਲ ਤੇ ਡੁੰਘੀਆਂ ਸ਼ਾਮਾਂ’, ‘ਕਿਕਰ’, ‘ਬਿਨਫ੍ਸ਼ਾ ਦਾ ਫੁਲ’,‘ਗੰਗਾ ਰਾਮ’, ‘ਕੋਇਲ ਦੇ ਬਚੇ ਕਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਆਲ੍ਹਣੇ’, ‘ਖੇੜਾ’, ‘ਤੋਤਾ’, ‘ਬੁਲਬੁਲ ਤੇ ਰਾਹੀ’, ‘ਬਿਸਮਿਲ ਮੋਰ’, ‘ਫੁੰਡਿਆ ਤੋਤਾ’, ‘ਵਰਜਿਤ ਵਾੜੀ’, ‘ਤ੍ਰੇਲ ਦਾ ਤੁਪਕਾ’, ‘ਇਕ ਵੈਰਾਨ ਬਾਗ’, ‘ਪਦਮ ਬ੍ਰਿਛ ਦੀ ਬਹਾਰ’, ‘ਗੁਲਦਾਊਦੀਆਂ ਆਈਆਂ’, ‘ਮੀਂਹ ਮ੍ਹੇਰ’, ‘ਮੇਰੀਆਂ ਗੁਲਦਾਊਦੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਵਿਦੈਗੀ’ ਆਦਿ ਵਿੱਚ ਇਸੇ ਧਾਰਨਾ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰਗਟਾਵਾ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ| ਹੱਥਲਾ ਪੇਪਰ ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ ਦੇ ਸੰਦਰਭ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਧੁਨਿਕ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਕਵੀ ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਦੇ ਅਧਿਐਨ ਉਪਰ ਅਧਾਰਿਤ ਹੈ| ਜਿਸ ਦੇ ਅੰਤਰਗਤ ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀਆਂ ਚੋਣਵੀਆਂ ਰਚਨਾਵਾਂ ਦਾ ਅਧਿਐਨ ਈਕੋਕ੍ਰਿਟੀਸਿਜ਼ਮ ਦੀਆਂ ਵੱਖ- ਵੱਖ ਧਾਰਨਾਵਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਮੂਲ ਸੰਕਲਪਾਂ ਦੇ ਅਧਾਰ ਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਸਤੁਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ|","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"69 1","pages":"122 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79932605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To be a child of diaspora: The irreconcilable outsider in Sikh discourse","authors":"C. VanderBeek","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2018.1545192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2018.1545192","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Scholarship, media, and activism engaging Sikhism construct a standardized Sikh who carries a specific configuration of language, ethnicity, historical memory, and physical appearance. Nijhawan calls this ‘the prevailing identity politics of hegemonic diasporas’ [2016. The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: Violence, Memory, and Agency. New York: Palgave Macmillan, 2], noting how diasporic religious subjectivity becomes globally standardized as Sikhs advocate for inclusion in public and political spheres. Using the visual and sonic iconography of Sikh diaspora, I explore how this socio-historical construction of the proper Sikh also alienates difference within Sikhism, despite diaspora itself constantly generating heterodox bodies.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"47 1","pages":"187 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73677466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bhai Vir Singh and modern Punjabi drama: An analysis of the play Raja Lakhdata Singh","authors":"G. Aurora","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2019.1674516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674516","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Bhai Vir Singh's didactic play Raja Lakhdata Singh (1910) is one of the earliest modern Punjabi plays. The play was written in order to make the Sikhs aware of the ills assailing the community and to help set them on a path of reform. As an early play, the text is worthy of analysis in terms of the message it tries to propagate as well as its textual form and structure. This paper pursues this line of inquiry and will also comment on the dramatic and theatrical conventions prevalent in Punjab at the time, in order to understand the formative years of modern Punjabi drama.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"23 1","pages":"100 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83298253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}