Sikhs across borders
Subtitle: transnational practices of European Sikhs
By: edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold
Edition: First [edition].
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781441113870; 9781441170873
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Sikhism; Sikhs
Description: "Sikhs Across Borders is the first study to explore patterns of transnational practices among European Sikhs, with particular focus on the links between the Sikhs in Europe, Punjab (the 'home-land') and within a global Sikh community. The book illustrates how local and transnational spheres coexist and interact in a multitude of social and cultural practices and discourses among European Sikhs past and present. Based on new empirical research Sikhs Across Borders book explores how religion continues to play a significant role in the daily lives of European Sikhs and is important for their maintenance of links with the homeland, as well as Sikhs in other parts of the world. The team of international contributors show how Sikhs are shaping new self-representations and identity constructions through a multitude of transnational practices on the individual, national and global level, such as marriages, pilgrimage narratives, and the use of the internet and new media. Further transnational practices examined include religious learning and teaching practices and responses to political events in the diaspora."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Migration, settlement and challenges in the diaspora; title: Constructing identities, representations and belongings; title: Learning, teaching and contesting religious beliefs and practices.