The Emergence of Modern 'Sikh Theology

Reassessing the Passage of Ideas From Trumpp to Bha ̄i ̄ Vi ̄r Singh

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ID2805125
AuthorsArvind-Pal Singh Mandair (0000-0002-0709-6776, Hofstra University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume68
Issue2
Pages253-275
Publication date2005-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x05000121
OpenAlexW2140403265
LanguageEN
Citations received5

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 demarcated the conceptual framework of modern sikhism. this regime of translation contains an ideology about religion that made translators such as ernest trumpp imagine the work of translation as providing a remedy for a scripture perceived as lacking conceptual coherence, or in the case of trumpp's non-sikh protagonist m.a. macauliffe, as based on a 'dialogical interaction' with sikh native informants. the paper's main focus is to show how key theological concepts passed from trumpp to macauliffe, and were inadvertently imbibed by writers of the exegetical commentaries on scripture such as bha ̄i ̄ vi ̄r singh, even as they were contesting trumpp's odium theologicum

Dialogical self · Epistemology · Hinduism · Ideology · Politics · Sikhism · Sociology · Theology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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