RLG207H5: Introduction to Sikhism

Table of Contents:
— HISTORY
o Bābā Nānak and the Founding of the Sikh Panth
o From Gurū Aṅgad to Gurū Arjan
o From Gurū Har Gobind to Gurū Gobind Siṅgh
o Bandā Siṅgh Bahādur and the Rise of Sikh Power
o Early Sikh Darbārs
o Misls
o Mahārāja Raṇjīt Siṅgh and His Times
o In the 20th Century
o Partition
o In the Modern World
— LITERATURE (SACRED)
o Gurū Granth: The Scripture of the Sikhs
o Gurū Granth: Ceremonial Treatment
o Gurū Granth: History of Its Digitization
o Gurū Granth: Use of Its Digitization
o Bhagat Bāṇī
o Bhaṭṭs
— LITERATURE (HISTORICAL)
o Sākhīs about the Founder
o Rahit Literature
o Ẓafarnāma
o Srī Gur Sobhā
o Bansāvalīnāma and Mahimā Prakāś
o Autobiographies in Punjabi
o Autobiographies: In European Languages
— SOCIETY
o Contemporary Sikh Society
o Caste from a Historical Perspective
o Caste from a Contemporary Perspective
o Gender
o Transnational Family
— SOCIAL DIVERSITY
o Jaṭṭs
o Khatrīs and Aroṛās
o Rāmgaṛhīās
o Dalits
o Siklīgars
o Bhāṭṛās
— RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
o Farīd in the Gurū Granth
o Kabīr in the Gurū Granth
o Ravidās in the Gurū Granth
o Early Diversity
o Choṭā Mel (Mīṇās)
o Nihaṅg
o Nihaṅg: British Perspective
o Niraṅkārī
o Nāmdhārī
o 19th-21st-Century Sants
o Nanaksar
o Radhasoami
o Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha
o Sachkhand Nanak Dham
o Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere
— BEYOND PUNJAB
o Sikh Migration
o India
o Australia
o Austria
o Belgium
o Burma
o Canada
o China Including Hong Kong
o Denmark
o Finland
o France
o Germany
o Greece
o Italy
o Japan
o Malaysia
o Netherlands
o New Zealand
o Norway
o Poland
o Portugal
o Russia
o Singapore
o Spain
o Sweden
o Switzerland
o Thailand
o United Kingdom
o United States
o Ghadar Movement
o Sikhs and the World Wars
o Globalization of the Panth

— describes Sikhism, the youngest member of the Indic religious traditions
— looks at the striking features of this tradition and describes its birth in the 15th century and its continual evolution between the 16th and late 20th centuries into an independent formation often described as the “world’s fifth largest religion”
— explains how Sikhism arose at a time of religious and political ferment, a fact which left its mark on its interactions with other traditions, notably Islam, Christianity and Hinduism.
— illustrates that Sikhism’s political aspirations may not have been fully met by the establishment of the nation state of India in 1947
— pays attention to the fact that Sikhism is isomorphic with Buddhism and Jainism inasmuch as the demographically minority status of all of these religious traditions conceals the vast influence they have exerted on the Indian landscape.
— analyses the relationship between complex themes such as violence and mysticism, politics and religion, tradition and modernity, as they have manifested themselves in the historical evolution of the Sikh community
— provides a useful introduction to the lives of its founders, their philosophical and ethical teachings and to Sikh responses and interactions with the world’s major religious traditions in an increasingly pluralistic world

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