Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4505092 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair |
| PRENOMES | Arvind-Pal Singh |
| SOBRENOME | Mandair |
| ASSINATURA | MANDAIR A S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0709-6776 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Insecurities of expulsion
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy
This article examines Sikh conceptualizations about death and immortality, focusing on several thematic lines of inquiry drawn from the utterances of the Sikh Gurus ( gurbāṇī ): (i) ordinary or empirical death; (ii) deathless states; (iii) after death? (iv) this life; (v) personhood and the (non-)existence of God. These themes address philosophical issues related to concerns about fear of death, belief in an afterlife, as well as its implications…
An unsettling year
An unsettling year2023 has proven to be a tumultuous year for Sikhs in Punjab and the diaspora.Barely 18 months after the end of the Kisan Andolan, popularly known as the Farmers Movement (2020)(2021), and less than a year after the assassination of the Sikh rapper Siddhu Moose Wala, cycles of violence which had been brewing in Punjab for over a decade, seemed to come to a head earlier this year.The early months of 2023 saw tense clashes between …
Sikh World
Im/materialities
This article explores the interaction between materiality and ideality through the work of a translation software technology routinely used in Sikh diaspora communities. The software Sikhi-to-the-Max weaves together subjectivity, religion and linguistic formations making it indispensable for mediating a communicational ecosystem of diasporic life-worlds by enabling translation of a premodern scriptural language between different generations of Si…
Wrestling with the Violence and Paradoxes of Secular Power
This introductory essay provides an overview of the central themes and interventions marking Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age while also briefly describing the key nodes of analysis that frame the three responses constituting this book forum
Decolonizing Secularism’s “Conceptual Matrix”
This article responds to Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (2016). It highlights those aspects of the book that intersect with intellectual work that actively experiments with alternative ways of conceptualizing difference in order to bring about a more rigorous decolonization of the conceptual structures of secularity. Central to this effort is the recognition, inspired by Gilles Deleuze, that secularity’s “…
Valences of the Dialectic
This is a response by the author Arvind-Pal S. Mandair to the contributors of the Review Forum discussing his work Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press
Books
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation. By Arvind-Pal Mandair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 536. ISBN 0231147244 $5
Secularism and Religion-Making
1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular Arvind Mandair, Markus Dressler 2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture Richard King 3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism Arvind Mandair 4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time Ruth Mas 5. Secularism, Violence, and the Liberal Imaginary Brian Goldstone 6.…
Religion and the Specter of the West
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. …
The Emergence of Modern 'Sikh Theology
steering between opposing explanations of religion as either sui generis or sociological construction, this paper argues for an alternative way of conceptualizing the phenomenon called 'sikh theology'. normally attributed to the interior religious experience of the founder of sikhism, 'sikh theology', it will be argued, can more usefully be envisaged as the product of a discursive regime, a regime of colonial translation, which effectively demarc…
Decolonizing Secularism’s “Conceptual Matrix”
This article responds to Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (2016). It highlights those aspects of the book that intersect with intellectual work that actively experiments with alternative ways of conceptualizing difference in order to bring about a more rigorous decolonization of the conceptual structures of secularity. Central to this effort is the recognition, inspired by Gilles Deleuze, that secularity’s “…
Valences of the Dialectic
This is a response by the author Arvind-Pal S. Mandair to the contributors of the Review Forum discussing his work 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 Emergence of Modern 'Sikh Theology
steering between opposing explanations of religion as either sui generis or sociological construction, this paper argues for an alternative way of conceptualizing the phenomenon called 'sikh theology'. normally attributed to the interior religious experience of the founder of sikhism, 'sikh theology', it will be argued, can more usefully be envisaged as the product of a discursive regime, a regime of colonial translation, which effectively demarc…
Religion and the Specter of the West
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. …
Books
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation. By Arvind-Pal Mandair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 536. ISBN 0231147244 $5
Secularism and Religion-Making
1. Introduction: Modernity, Religion-Making, and the Postsecular Arvind Mandair, Markus Dressler 2. Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture Richard King 3. Translations of Violence: Secularism and Religion-Making in the Discourses of Sikh Nationalism Arvind Mandair 4. On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time Ruth Mas 5. Secularism, Violence, and the Liberal Imaginary Brian Goldstone 6.…
Valences of the Dialectic
This is a response by the author Arvind-Pal S. Mandair to the contributors of the Review Forum discussing his work Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press
Wrestling with the Violence and Paradoxes of Secular Power
This introductory essay provides an overview of the central themes and interventions marking Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age while also briefly describing the key nodes of analysis that frame the three responses constituting this book forum
Decolonizing Secularism’s “Conceptual Matrix”
This article responds to Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (2016). It highlights those aspects of the book that intersect with intellectual work that actively experiments with alternative ways of conceptualizing difference in order to bring about a more rigorous decolonization of the conceptual structures of secularity. Central to this effort is the recognition, inspired by Gilles Deleuze, that secularity’s “…
Im/materialities
This article explores the interaction between materiality and ideality through the work of a translation software technology routinely used in Sikh diaspora communities. The software Sikhi-to-the-Max weaves together subjectivity, religion and linguistic formations making it indispensable for mediating a communicational ecosystem of diasporic life-worlds by enabling translation of a premodern scriptural language between different generations of Si…
An unsettling year
An unsettling year2023 has proven to be a tumultuous year for Sikhs in Punjab and the diaspora.Barely 18 months after the end of the Kisan Andolan, popularly known as the Farmers Movement (2020)(2021), and less than a year after the assassination of the Sikh rapper Siddhu Moose Wala, cycles of violence which had been brewing in Punjab for over a decade, seemed to come to a head earlier this year.The early months of 2023 saw tense clashes between …
Sikh World
Death, deathless states, and time-consciousness in Sikh philosophy
This article examines Sikh conceptualizations about death and immortality, focusing on several thematic lines of inquiry drawn from the utterances of the Sikh Gurus ( gurbāṇī ): (i) ordinary or empirical death; (ii) deathless states; (iii) after death? (iv) this life; (v) personhood and the (non-)existence of God. These themes address philosophical issues related to concerns about fear of death, belief in an afterlife, as well as its implications…
Insecurities of expulsion
Philosophy (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Religious studies (6 obras) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (5 obras) · Theology (5 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Hinduism (4 obras)