Title:
Sikhism : a very short introduction / Eleanor Nesbitt.
Author:
Nesbitt, Eleanor M., author.
Publication Information:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Call Number:
BL2018 .N47 2016
Abstract:
An accessible introduction to the world's fifth largest religion, this work presents Sikhism's meanings and myths, and its practices, rituals, and festivals, also addressing ongoing social issues such as the relationship with the Indian state, the diaspora, and caste.
Edition:
Second edition.
Fully updated, new edition.
ISBN:
9780198745570
Series:
Very short introductions series ; 132
Very short introductions ; 132.
Physical Description:
156 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 18 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Introduction -- Guru Nanak and his first successors -- Guru Granth Sahib -- Turban, Khalsa, and codes of conduct -- The shaping of modern Sikhism -- Sikhism outside India -- Attitudes to caste, gender, and other faiths -- Sikhism and the third millennium.
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