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Lived Religion, Representation, and Sikh Identity
Author:
Eleanor Nesbitt
Series:
Sanctum Studies in Indian Intellectual, Cultural, and Historical Traditions
Binding:
Paperback
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About the Book
Sikhism is often presented as a coherent world religion, defined by the teachings of the Gurus, the authority of the
Guru Granth Sahib
, the gurdwara, the Khalsa, and shared practices such as
seva
. Yet lived Sikh experience is marked by striking diversity across caste, gender, generation, geography, religious grouping, and the differing circumstances of India and the global diaspora.
Lived Religion, Representation, and Sikh Identity
asks what happens when this lived diversity exceeds the categories through which a religious tradition is taught, represented, regulated, and inherited. Drawing on Eleanor Nesbitt’s decades of ethnographic research among Sikh families in Britain, together with historical and contemporary scholarship, the book moves from religious socialisation and belonging to Sikh groupings and spiritual lineages, questions of authority and definition, visible markers of commitment, and Sikhism’s place as a world religion.Rather than treating religious categories as either false abstractions or transparent descriptions, Nesbitt shows the necessary work they perform. Families need them to transmit tradition, schools to teach it, institutions to define belonging, and communities to articulate what is authentic or exemplary. Yet every act of definition also selects, simplifies, and excludes. The result is a nuanced account of Sikh identity as a continuing negotiation between coherence and plurality, inheritance and change, normative representation and lived experience.
About the Author
Eleanor Nesbitt
Eleanor Nesbitt is Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, UK, and a distinguished scholar of Sikh Studies, religions and education, and lived religion. Her long-standing ethnographic research with Sikh families in Britain has explored religious socialisation, caste, gender, mixed-faith families, and the ways in which lived experience complicates fixed representations of religious traditions.
She co-founded the Punjab Research Group in 1984 and has received two lifetime achievement awards for her contribution to Sikh and Punjab Studies. Her books include
The Religious Lives of Sikh Children
,
Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction
,
Sikh: Two Centuries of Western Women’s Art and Writing
, and, with Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh,
Sikhism: The Basics
. She is also a co-editor of
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Sikhism
.
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