Author : Gail M. Harley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : 1438102534
Looks at the history and the impact on culture, society, and politics of Hindus and Sikhs in the United States.
Author : Eleanor M. Nesbitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198745575
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.
Author : Hilal Ahmed
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353055121
How do we make sense of the Muslims of India? Do they form a political community? Does the imagined conflict between Islam and modernity affect the Muslims' political behaviour in this country? Are Muslim religious institutions-mosques and madrasas-directly involved in politics? Do they instruct the community to vote strategically in all elections? What are 'Muslim issues'? Is it only about triple talaq? Are Muslims truly nationalists? Or do they continue to remain just an 'other' in India? While these questions intrigue us, we seldom debate to find pragmatic answers to these queries. Examining the everydayness of Muslims in contemporary India, Hilal Ahmed offers an evocative story of politics and Islam in India, which goes beyond the given narratives of Muslim victimhood and Islamic separation.
Author : Gurinder Singh Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0198044240
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion--and consequently culture--is "remade in the U.S.A." Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, this informative book gives an overview of each religion's beliefs, a short history of immigration--and discrimination--for each group, and how immigrants have adapted their religious beliefs since they arrived. Along the way, the roles of men and women, views toward dating and marriage, the relationship to the homeland, the "brain drain" from Asia of scientists, engineers, physicians, and other professionals, and American offshoots of Asian religions, such as the Hare Krishnas and Transcendental Meditation (TM), are discussed.
Author : Kānha Siṅgha
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Hinduism
ISBN :
Polemic against the view advanced by the Arya Samaj and others that the Sikhs are Hindus and not a separate religious entity.
Author : Harjot Oberoi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226615936
A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Author : Monte Cox
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891125280
A generation ago, most Americans had little or no contact with Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other adherents of non- Christian religions. Now our culture is much more pluralistic. In addition to these “others,” many Westerners, disenchanted with Christianity, are more inclined than they were a generation ago to dabble in new spiritual alternatives that were not as readily available here before. Many Christians feel intimidated by these changes. Many Christians don’t know how to engage their newest non- Christian neighbors in conversation, partly because they feel ignorant about the religions practiced by others. Significant Others seeks to fill this knowledge gap so readers will become more acquainted with the religious backgrounds of devout non- Christians they are meeting, as well as with the growing number of American people who claim no religious affiliation at all. Each chapter outlines the major world religions according to their significant founders or leading figures, significant beliefs and practices, significant sects and developments, and significant points of contact and points of contrast with Christian faith.
Author : Khyati Y. Joshi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813539889
In this compelling look at second-generation Indian Americans, Khyati Y. Joshi draws on case studies and interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian Americans, analyzing their experiences involving religion, race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. As she maps the crossroads they encounter as they navigate between their homes and the wider American milieu, Joshi shows how their identities have developed differently from their parents’ and their non-Indian peers’ and how religion often exerted a dramatic effect. The experiences of Joshi’s research participants reveal how race and religion interact, intersect, and affect each other in a society where Christianity and whiteness are the norm. Joshi shows how religion is racialized for Indian Americans and offers important insights in the wake of 9/11 and the backlash against Americans who look Middle Eastern and South Asian. Through her candid insights into the internal conflicts contemporary Indian Americans face and the religious and racial discrimination they encounter, Joshi provides a timely window into the ways that race, religion, and ethnicity interact in day-to-day life.
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher :
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 9788123709277
A selection of Gandhiji s articles drawn mainly from his contributions to young india, the Harijan and the Navjivan on Hinduism. Written on different occassions, these articles present a picture of hindu dharma I all its richness, comprehensiveness and sensitivity to the existential delimmas of human existence.
Author : Timothy Knepper
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780692855157
A Spectrum of Faith invites readers on a vivid journey through words and pictures into the diverse religious communities of greater Des Moines. Explore the south-side office park transformed into a Buddhist monastery as well as the Basilica in the city's center named to the National Registry of Historic Places; discover the Hindu temple rising above the cornfields of nearby rural Madrid along with the mosque, synagogue or gurudwara tucked away in a neighborhood near you. Whether they arrived before last century or just last decade, these Iowans who practice the world's major faith traditions--Sikhism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam--extend the state's proud history of welcome to readers of all faith backgrounds. Get to know the fascinating array of individuals, faith traditions and worship practices belonging to the many religious communities who call Iowa home.
