Balbinder Singh Bhogal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5624528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Balbinder Singh Bhogal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Balbinder Singh |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhogal |
| SIGNATURE | BHOGAL B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
As a woman
Political Theology on Edge
In Political Theology on Edge , the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of…
The Facts of Colonial Modernity and the Story of Sikhism
Story and fact are always in uneasy tension with each other. No matter how carefully we line up the historical data or how honestly we report the actual events through which we have lived, these do not by themselves tell the story of our lives. To tell all is not to tell a tale. Getting the facts straight is not enough to find the story to which they belong. In fact, getting the facts straight is a very different activity from that of finding a s…
Sikhi(sm)
Sikh Dharam and Postcolonialism
This article ponders what it would require to rethink Sikh dharam today, given the irreversible transformation that occurred from a (pre-colonial) sikhi to today’s (colonial/modern) Sikhism. Such reassessment is approached through the employment of a third term, sikhi(sm). This third term operates as a postcolonial strategy to foreground the legacy of powerful colonial inscriptions, and in doing so, this study aims to recall how (colonial) power …
Introduction to the Review Symposium - Decolonizations
Here follows a general introduction to this special issue of RoSA, which takes the form of a Review Forum discussing Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press
The Animal Sublime
During the reform movements instigated under British colonialism (1870–1920), Sikh identity and tradition were re-framed according to various foreign hierarchies of ascent, transcendence, and separation. Undergirding this colonial discourse lay the distinction between ani-mality and humanity, such that the reformation split the animal body from the rational mind in the creation of Sikh-ism as an Indic mimete of a Christian-type monotheism. This h…
Monopolizing violence before and after 1984
The events of 1984 have had world-wide repercussions for Sikhs, not only across the globe but across time. Twenty-six years of impunity for the government officials implicated in organizing the systematic massacre of thousands of Sikhs in India demonstrates the obdurate nature of state power to silence a people's history/suffering. Rather than simply reiterate the trauma of 1984, this paper situates the events within a broader canvas of (modern/c…
The Hermeneutics of Sikh Music ( Rāg ) and Word ( Shabad )
an international conference under the title 'Hermeneutics of Sikh Music (ra g) and Word (shabad)' was held at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York.The conference brought together 17 scholars and music practitioners from across disciplinary boundaries, from India, The Netherlands, Italy, England, Canada and the US.Some papers from the conference have been collated and edited to appear in this issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theor…
Ghostly Disorientations
Some call him a ghost (bhuutanaa); some say he's a demon (betaalaa). Some call him a man; O, poor Nanak! Crazy Nanak has gone insane after the King (saah). I know of none other than Hari.1 (AG, 991
Questioning Hermeneutics with Freud
This paper begins to question the interpretive endeavor when it is applied to the Adi Granth. The text itself expresses a view that the ‘world is a dream’ and that there is real difficulty in communicating the truth about reality, since it is like a mute person who enjoys, but is unable to express, the taste of his sweet; that is the sweetness of the mystic experience. I raise the question: what is hermeneutics to this situation? How is one to in…
The Hermeneutics of Sikh Music ( Rāg ) and Word ( Shabad )
an international conference under the title 'Hermeneutics of Sikh Music (ra g) and Word (shabad)' was held at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York.The conference brought together 17 scholars and music practitioners from across disciplinary boundaries, from India, The Netherlands, Italy, England, Canada and the US.Some papers from the conference have been collated and edited to appear in this issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theor…
Monopolizing violence before and after 1984
The events of 1984 have had world-wide repercussions for Sikhs, not only across the globe but across time. Twenty-six years of impunity for the government officials implicated in organizing the systematic massacre of thousands of Sikhs in India demonstrates the obdurate nature of state power to silence a people's history/suffering. Rather than simply reiterate the trauma of 1984, this paper situates the events within a broader canvas of (modern/c…
Questioning Hermeneutics with Freud
This paper begins to question the interpretive endeavor when it is applied to the Adi Granth. The text itself expresses a view that the ‘world is a dream’ and that there is real difficulty in communicating the truth about reality, since it is like a mute person who enjoys, but is unable to express, the taste of his sweet; that is the sweetness of the mystic experience. I raise the question: what is hermeneutics to this situation? How is one to in…
Questioning Hermeneutics with Freud
This paper begins to question the interpretive endeavor when it is applied to the Adi Granth. The text itself expresses a view that the ‘world is a dream’ and that there is real difficulty in communicating the truth about reality, since it is like a mute person who enjoys, but is unable to express, the taste of his sweet; that is the sweetness of the mystic experience. I raise the question: what is hermeneutics to this situation? How is one to in…
Ghostly Disorientations
Some call him a ghost (bhuutanaa); some say he's a demon (betaalaa). Some call him a man; O, poor Nanak! Crazy Nanak has gone insane after the King (saah). I know of none other than Hari.1 (AG, 991
Monopolizing violence before and after 1984
The events of 1984 have had world-wide repercussions for Sikhs, not only across the globe but across time. Twenty-six years of impunity for the government officials implicated in organizing the systematic massacre of thousands of Sikhs in India demonstrates the obdurate nature of state power to silence a people's history/suffering. Rather than simply reiterate the trauma of 1984, this paper situates the events within a broader canvas of (modern/c…
The Hermeneutics of Sikh Music ( Rāg ) and Word ( Shabad )
an international conference under the title 'Hermeneutics of Sikh Music (ra g) and Word (shabad)' was held at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York.The conference brought together 17 scholars and music practitioners from across disciplinary boundaries, from India, The Netherlands, Italy, England, Canada and the US.Some papers from the conference have been collated and edited to appear in this issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theor…
Sikh Dharam and Postcolonialism
This article ponders what it would require to rethink Sikh dharam today, given the irreversible transformation that occurred from a (pre-colonial) sikhi to today’s (colonial/modern) Sikhism. Such reassessment is approached through the employment of a third term, sikhi(sm). This third term operates as a postcolonial strategy to foreground the legacy of powerful colonial inscriptions, and in doing so, this study aims to recall how (colonial) power …
Introduction to the Review Symposium - Decolonizations
Here follows a general introduction to this special issue of RoSA, which takes the form of a Review Forum discussing Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press
The Animal Sublime
During the reform movements instigated under British colonialism (1870–1920), Sikh identity and tradition were re-framed according to various foreign hierarchies of ascent, transcendence, and separation. Undergirding this colonial discourse lay the distinction between ani-mality and humanity, such that the reformation split the animal body from the rational mind in the creation of Sikh-ism as an Indic mimete of a Christian-type monotheism. This h…
Sikhi(sm)
The Facts of Colonial Modernity and the Story of Sikhism
Story and fact are always in uneasy tension with each other. No matter how carefully we line up the historical data or how honestly we report the actual events through which we have lived, these do not by themselves tell the story of our lives. To tell all is not to tell a tale. Getting the facts straight is not enough to find the story to which they belong. In fact, getting the facts straight is a very different activity from that of finding a s…
Political Theology on Edge
In Political Theology on Edge , the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of…
As a woman
Philosophy (8 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)