A Contemporary Look at Sikh Religion: Essays on Scripture, Identity, Creation, Spirituality, Charity and Interfaith Dialogue

A Contemporary Look at Sikh Religion: Essays on Scripture, Identity, Creation, Spirituality, Charity and Interfaith Dialogue

By- James Massey

The ten essays in this volume are divided into four parts. In part one, the first essay deals with the Sikh scriptures, including Sri Guru Granth Sahib. The second essay discusses in detail, the vision and mission of Universal Humanhood of Sri Guru Gobind Singhji. In part two, the essays deal with ‘Sikh Identity’, and show that till today the struggle for identity is continuing. Part three contains four essays dealing with the Sikh concepts of ‘creation’, ‘spirituality’, ‘charity’, and ‘suffering and death’. Part four contains two essays. One dealing with ‘interfaith dialogue’ offered by Sri Guru Nanak Devji and the last essay on the historical development of the same process, with special reference to the contribution of the Sikh community.

This volume will be of great interest to scholars working on Religion in South Asia in general and Sikh Studies in particular.

James Massey is currently the Director of the Centre for Dalit/Subaltern Studies and Community Contextual Communication Centre, New Delhi and Hon. Secretary of the Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College (University), West Bengal. He is Privatdozent, the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Dr. Massey is the translator of the Punjabi Bible and has authored and edited more than 25 books, which include: Minorities in a Democracy: The Indian Experience (1999); Minorities and Religious Freedom in a Democracy (2003); Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: A Study in Just Society (2003) and Church in Dialogue with the Poor (2005).

ISBN  978-81-7304-857-9    2010   154p.   Rs.450/ pounds 35

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