The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

Edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech This is new, first edition (South Asia edition) hardcover  book published by Oxford University Press in 2014. This is a very large book -  10"x7" 650 pages.  The used option is also a first edition and is in very good condition. The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. A number of essays within this collection also provide a more practical dimension, written by artists and practitioners of the tradition.  The handbook is divided into eight thematic sections that explore different "expressions" of Sikhism. Historical, literary, ideological, institutional, a