Sikhs Across Borders Transnational Practices of European Sikhs [Paperback]

Sikhs Across Bordersis 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 researchSikhs Across Bordersbook 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.

The internet, pilgrimage, religious controversies, kinship networks, Sikh soldiers in World War 1 - these are just some of the subjects addressed in a work that very accessibly presents fine scholarship from seasoned specialists and younger scholars in Sikh Studies. Research in specific fields and European national contexts is excellently set in wider historical and geographical contexts. This volume will be important to teachers and students of religious and diaspora studies from a range of disciplines. Eleanor Nesbitt, Professor Emerita at the University of Warwick, UK.

Enriched by the contribution of a new generation of scholars from different disciplines of social sciences, the volume suggests how Sikh Studies continually incorporates new frontiers of academic enquiry and appeals to the interest of scholars of migration slã