Navdeep Mandair
Biographic Data
| ID | 839033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Navdeep Mandair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Navdeep |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandair |
| SIGNATURE | MANDAIR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Approximate Difference
The work of John Hick represents a prominent trend in the philosophy of religion, which is allegedly receptive to the epistemological concerns of religions other than Christianity. However, I will argue that this apparent latitude towards religious difference deploys a comparative idiom that is surreptitiously informed by a form of ontotheology that inscribes the same cultural chauvinism as other forms of Western discourse. This form of clandesti…
Re-enchanting Englishness
‘Have you theh lahn-ed the kupreh?’ Is this instance of the argot commonly used by young Sikhs in Britain simply a kind of illegitimate English? Or does this mongrel idiom attest to a new linguistic reality in contemporary Britain? What Kathleen Hall represents, in an echo of Homi Bhabha, as the end of the absolute tenure of the national tongue for the expressive latitude of translation. Drawing on insights from Jacques Derrida's Monolingualism o…
(EN)Gendered Sikhism
Among the most insidious regimes of control inaugurated by the British in India was the identification of a fundamental affinity between themselves and manly ‘races’ such as the Sikhs. I will suggest that this apparent commensurability of colonial and native traditions depended upon the Sikhs readily accepting a masculine signature which restricted the ambiguous organization of the Khalsa Sikh body to the muscular piety prescribed by colonial dis…
(EN)Gendered Sikhism
Among the most insidious regimes of control inaugurated by the British in India was the identification of a fundamental affinity between themselves and manly ‘races’ such as the Sikhs. I will suggest that this apparent commensurability of colonial and native traditions depended upon the Sikhs readily accepting a masculine signature which restricted the ambiguous organization of the Khalsa Sikh body to the muscular piety prescribed by colonial dis…
Re-enchanting Englishness
‘Have you theh lahn-ed the kupreh?’ Is this instance of the argot commonly used by young Sikhs in Britain simply a kind of illegitimate English? Or does this mongrel idiom attest to a new linguistic reality in contemporary Britain? What Kathleen Hall represents, in an echo of Homi Bhabha, as the end of the absolute tenure of the national tongue for the expressive latitude of translation. Drawing on insights from Jacques Derrida's Monolingualism o…
(EN)Gendered Sikhism
Among the most insidious regimes of control inaugurated by the British in India was the identification of a fundamental affinity between themselves and manly ‘races’ such as the Sikhs. I will suggest that this apparent commensurability of colonial and native traditions depended upon the Sikhs readily accepting a masculine signature which restricted the ambiguous organization of the Khalsa Sikh body to the muscular piety prescribed by colonial dis…
Re-enchanting Englishness
‘Have you theh lahn-ed the kupreh?’ Is this instance of the argot commonly used by young Sikhs in Britain simply a kind of illegitimate English? Or does this mongrel idiom attest to a new linguistic reality in contemporary Britain? What Kathleen Hall represents, in an echo of Homi Bhabha, as the end of the absolute tenure of the national tongue for the expressive latitude of translation. Drawing on insights from Jacques Derrida's Monolingualism o…
An Approximate Difference
The work of John Hick represents a prominent trend in the philosophy of religion, which is allegedly receptive to the epistemological concerns of religions other than Christianity. However, I will argue that this apparent latitude towards religious difference deploys a comparative idiom that is surreptitiously informed by a form of ontotheology that inscribes the same cultural chauvinism as other forms of Western discourse. This form of clandesti…
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