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Presenting current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life styles, this volume is the first of its kind devoted to the religion of young Sikhs in the global community, discussing their interpretation, shaping and negotiation of religious identities, traditions and authority on an individual and collective level. Qualitative research and ethnographic fieldwork from new and established academics analyses how young Sikhs try to solve social, intellectual and psychological tensions between the family, the expectations of the majority society, Punjabi culture and religious values.
List of contents
Introduction; I: Family and Home; 1: Family Values; 2: Young Sikhs in Finland; 3: Punjabi Youth in Northern Italy; 4: Punjabi across Generations; II: Representation and Gender; 5: The Impossible Hybridity of Hair; 6: Marking the Female Sikh Body; 7: Young Sikhs and Literature; 8: Becoming Men in the Global Village; III: Reflexivity and Translation; 9: Beyond Code-Switching; 10: Young Sikhs in Italy; 11: London Sikh Youth as British Citizenry; 12: Reflexivity
About the author
Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Bergen in Norway. He has published widely on religions in South Asia and in the South Asian diasporas. He is the editor, together with Selva J. Raj, of the book South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America that was published by Ashgate in 2008, and, together with Kristina Myrvold, the editor of Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations published by Ashgate in 2011. Kristina Myrvold is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She has specialized in Sikh studies and is the author of several publications on Sikh practices, historiography and migration. She is the editor of the book The Death of Sacred Texts: Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts published by Ashgate in 2010, and the editor, together with Knut A. Jacobsen, of Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations published by Ashgate in 2011.
