Sikhism : A Very Short Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Eleanor Nesbitt specialises in ethnographic study of the UK's Hindu and Sikh communities. She is Reader in Religions and Education at the Institute of Education! University of Warwick. Her books include: Intercultural Education: Ethnographic and Religious Approaches; Interfaith Pilgrims; The Religious Lives of Sikh Children: A Coventry Based Study; Guru Nanak (with Gopinder Kaur) ; andHindu Children in Britain (with Robert Jackson). Klappentext Lively and accessible introduction to the world's fifth largest religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction ; 2. Guru Nanak and his first successors ; 3. Guru Granth Sahib ; 4. Turban! Khalsa! and codes of conduct ; 5. The Nineteenth Century ; 6. The Twentieth Century: Ways of being Sikh ; 7. Sikhism outside India ; 8. Attitudes to caste! gender! and other faiths ; 9. Religion in the Twenty-first Century

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Nesbitt
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2005
• EAN: 9780192806017
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280601-7
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 174 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; A Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; Very Short Introductions; A Very Short Introductions; Very Short Introduction
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology