Sikh Studies in West
Response to Some Misstatements About Dr Hew McLeod – Part 1
[The following response, to some of the statements made about Dr McLeod in tributes paid to him after his death, has been made using Dr McLeod's own methodology of a "skeptic" — that we believe the statements in question are hagiographical in nature rather than objective. I am sure those who worship Dr McLeod would [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )An Analysis of Western Academic View of Sikhi & Sikhs
ISSUES OF SIKH STUDIES
By DALJEET SINGH
It is a welcome sign that in the last few decades interest in the study of Sikh religion, its institutions and history has grown both in India and abroad, both among Sikh and non-Sikh scholars. It is indeed a healthy development. But, partly because of the variant background from which [...]
Dr Noel Q King on Dr W H McLeod
Orientalism, Critical Scholarship and the Sikh Religion
[Excerpted from Perspectives on the Sikh Tradition, Ed. Justice Gurdev Singh, 1996, Amritsar, ISBN 81-7205-178-6]
(From pages 70 to 73)
…..Whatever Dr. McLeod intended many readers will ask his books the wrong questions and get the wrong answers. The books to an uninitiated reader seem to reiterate the notion that a [...]
Brief Account of the Sikh History of 18th Century
THE KHALSA DURING 18TH CENTURY
Dr Kirpal Singh
[Then editor of Abstracts of Sikh Studies, Jan-Mar 2003]
The 18th century history of the Sikhs is seen as historically significant and religiously so glorious and inspiring that it is repeated in every Gurdwara in the daily Ardas in the morning and evening.
“Hail those Sikhs who meditated on [...]
Review of McLeod’s “The Sikhs”
The Sikhs
Reviewed by Dr Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon*
by: W.H. McLeod
Published by: Columbia University Press, New York
Pages: p. 119+
[* Review published in the Journal of Sikh Studies, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and in the Nanak Parkash Patrika, Punjabi University, Patiala.This version reproduced from Some Recent Publications on Sikhism — An Evaluation, Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh, [...]
Sikh framework of comparative studies of religion
A Method to Study Religion
by Daljeet Singh
[Reproduced from Daljeet Singh, Kharak Singh (Ed.), Sikhism: Its Philosophy And History, Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh, 1997]
Comparative studies of religion are essential both for the proper appreciation of any religion and its features, and more especially, for identifying the reasons for the wide varieties [...]
Late Daljeet Singh’s pithy analysis of lop-sided “researches” on Sikhism
Problem of Methodology
by Daljeet Singh
[Reproduced from Daljeet Singh, Kharak Singh (Ed.), Sikhism: Its Philosophy And History, Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh, 1997]
It is a welcome sign that in the last few decades interest in the study of Sikh religion, its institutions and history, has grown in India and abroad, both among Sikh [...]
Why & how Sikhism gets misrepresented in the West
MISREPRESENTATION OF SIKH TRADITION IN
WORLD RELIGIOUS TEXTBOOKS
by Prof. James R Lewis*
[*Prof. of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, (U.S.A.) in 1997 when the article was published.]
[Reproduced from Sikhism: Its Philosophy and History; Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh, 1997]
(Genuine) knowledge of another culture is possible (but) the student must feel he or she [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Prof. Noel Q King subtly discredits the McLeodian school
FUNDAMENTALISM, MODERNITY AND SIKHISM : A TERTIUM QUID
by Dr NOEL Q. King*
[*Prof. Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S.A.)]
[Reproduced from Sikhism: Its Philosophy and History; Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh, 1997]
“Fundamentalism” in its strictest technical use refers to a movement within American Protestant Evangelicalism of fairly recent origin. The word has come to [...]
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