Re-thinking the Guru
Towards a Typology of Forms of Religious Domination in Pre-Colonial Pañjab
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12908523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Hegarty (Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-202 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions of South Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2689 • E-ISSN: 1751-2697 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/rosa.v3i2.183 |
| OpenAlex | W2003704377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this paper, I explore the role of hagiographical tradition in the formation of Sikh identity and in shaping the attitude’s of Sikhs to non-Sikhs in eighteenth-century Pañjab. I focus on one particular hagiography, the B40 Janam Sakhi, which tells of the life and deeds of Guru Nanak. I suggest that, by inserting Nanak and his work in a range of dramatic scenarios, the B40 develops a perspective on the Guru and the austere devotional ideals of his verse that considerably widens their social appeal and cosmic scope, and establishes an arena for the formation and adaptation of forms of religious identity and domination amongst Sikhs. I suggest that this form of analysis may serve to enrich and broaden the productive scholarly dialogue concerning the social and political life of the suffix -ism, the designation ‘religion’ and the development of a wide variety of, by turn, cherished and vilified definitional perspectives in South Asian studies
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Buddhism · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sikhism · Sociology · Theology · Variety (cybernetics · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |