The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent

The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent
Author: Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1993-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0521432871

This work is a critical analysis of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective. It begins with Guru Nanak's vision of Transcendent Reality and concludes with the mystical journey of Rani Raj Kaur, the heroine of a modern Punjabi epic. The eight chapters of the book approach the Sikh vision of the Transcendent from historical, scriptural, symbolic, mythological, romantic, existential, ethical and mystical perspectives. Each of these discloses the centrality of the woman, and show convincingly that Sikh Gurus and poets did not want the feminine principle to serve merely as a figure of speech or literary device; it was intended rather to pervade the whole life of the Sikhs. The present work bolsters the claim that literary symbols should be translated into social and political realities, and in so doing puts a valuable feminist interpretation on a religious tradition which has remained relatively unexplored in scholarly literature.

Sikh Dynamic Vision

Sikh Dynamic Vision
Author: Nirbhai Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy, Sikh
ISBN:

The Present Work Is A Rare Feat Of Critical And Candid Analysis Of The Religious Philosophies For Cleansing The Prevalent Shoddy Interpretations Of The Kernal Concepts Of Sikh Philosophy For Illuminating The Sikh Epiphany Of Ecstasy, Voluntarism And The Khalsa.

The Religion of the Sikhs

The Religion of the Sikhs
Author: Dorothy Field
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1914
Genre: India
ISBN:

Chapter iv. "Hymns from the Grnth Sahib, and from the Granth of the tenth guru: p. 63-114.

Subaltern Vision

Subaltern Vision
Author: Aparajita De
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 144383694X

""Ever since the Gramscian notion of the subaltern became the lynch-pin of the counter-hegemonic project developed by the Subaltern Studies group in the early 1980s, attempts to give voice to India's unrepresented or under-represented classes have played a

Life and Words

Life and Words
Author: Veena Das
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520247450

Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe.