Pdf File: a-study-of-the-sikh-kanya-mahavidyalaya.pdf.Goa) and Pluralism in the World Religions.Ī Study of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya By Tripti Bassi He is the author of numerous books, including Yoga and Psychology and The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought, both also published by SUNY Press The Philosophy of the Grammarians (volume five of The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, with K. Harold CowardM is Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria in Canada. Written in a style that will appeal to both scholars and lay readers, technical terms are clearly explained and case studies explicitly include devotees’ personal experiences of songs and chants in public and private religious ritual. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction of a particular tradition’s word/scripture, followed by case studies showcasing the diversity of understanding and the range of chant and song in devotee practice, and concludes with a brief illustration of new trends in music and chant within the tradition. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as it functions in word, chant, and song for devotees in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions. In academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. All this, along with a bibliography, provides readers with an informative and accessible guide toward understanding Sikhism.Īn accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions. It provides a chronology of events, a brief introduction that gives a general overview of the religion, and a dictionary with several hundred entries, which present the gurus and other leaders, trace the rather complex history, expound some of the precepts and concepts, describe many of the rites and rituals, and explain the meaning of numerous related expressions. This reference is an excellent place to learn more about the religion. With this emigration Sikhism has become considerably less exotic, but hardly better known to outsiders. There is also, more recently, the dispersion from the Punjab throughout the rest of India and on to Europe and the Americas. There is a particularly turbulent history in which the Sikhs have fought to affirm their beliefs and resist external domination that continues to this day. There are the precepts, many related to liberation through the divine name or nam.
First of all, there is the emergence of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, and the long line of his successors. Contrary to popular opinion, there is more to Sikhism than the distinctive dress.
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