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Books
on the Topics of Sikhism & Punjab Studies
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G.S.
Mann's Sikhism (Prentice Hall, 2004)
is published in Religions of the World Series. Focusing predominantly
on primary source material, this book reconstructs five centuries
of Sikh history and examines Sikh beliefs and practices, as well
as the nature and composition of Sikh society. The Japanese
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G.
S. Mann's Making of Sikh Scripture
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) reconstructs the history
of the Sikh scriptural text, the Adi Granth, from the 1530s
to the present day, and also attempts to place it in the larger
context of Sikh institutional developments. This book is also
available online at Oxford Scholarship Online, and has also
been released in both hard (2002) and soft cover (2003) by Oxford
University Press, New Delhi.
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Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs in America,
was a co-authored volume featuring the work of G.S. Mann, Paul
David Numrich, and Raymond B. Williams (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001). The volume contains three chapters that narrate
the history of the Sikhs and their settlement in America. A
revised edition of the book is released in 2008. |
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Mark
Juergensmeyer's Terror in the Mind of God
(Berkeley: UC Press, 2000) has a chapter on Sikh militancy, and
presents the first serious discussion of religious nationalism
in which Sikh issues are closely woven into the main narrative.
The winner of the prestigious Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
in 2003, the book has gone through several editions. |
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