The Construction of religious boundaries : culture, identity, and diversity in the Sikh tradition (Record no. 68979)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0195632885
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 294.609 OBE
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Oberoi, Harjot.
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Title The Construction of religious boundaries : culture, identity, and diversity in the Sikh tradition
Statement of responsibility, etc /Harjot Oberoi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1994
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 494 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism, and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through an examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikhism recognized multiple identities based in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. As a result, religious identities were highly blurred and competing definitions of Sikhism were possible.<br/>In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity, bringing about the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism.<br/>A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sikhism | History.Sikhism | Social aspects.Sikhism | Relations.
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 08/06/2026   294.609 OBE G8406 08/06/2026 08/06/2026 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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