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Gurdwara Palatine Sikh Religious Society (SRS), based in Palatine, Illinois, is a United States-based Not-for-Profit Religious Organization and a place of worship, incorporated in 1972. It manages the largest Gurdwaara Sahib ( Sikh Worship Center) of Midwest America at 1280 Winnetka Street, Palatine on a Campus spread over fourteen acres of ...
His book is described by the publisher as "a major reinterpretation of religion and society in India". [ 1 ] Sociologist T. N. Madan states Oberoi is a "careful Sikh scholar", [ 2 ] while the Sikhism historian W. H. McLeod has called his book as "superb" that "successfully challenges the accepted historiography and is "very significant" to Sikh ...
The art, culture, identity, and society of the Sikhs have been merged with the different localities and ethnicities of different Sikhs into categories such as 'Agrahari Sikhs', 'Dakhni Sikhs' and 'Assamese Sikhs'; however there has emerged a niche cultural phenomenon that can be described as 'Political Sikh'.
The Sikh leaders of the Singh Sabha worked to offer a clear definition of Sikh identity and tried to purify Sikh belief and practice. [ 109 ] The later years of British colonial rule saw the emergence of the Akali movement to bring reform in the gurdwaras during the early 1920s.
The Stockton gurdwara, the oldest in the U.S., opened on October 24, 1912. [23]Sikhs have lived in the United States for more than 130 years. The first Sikh immigrants to the United States started to arrive in the second half of the 19th century, when poor economic conditions in British India drove many Indians to emigrate elsewhere.
Excited chatter in the parking lot juxtaposes with reverent whispers inside the worship room as singers perform hymns from the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib. More 317 Project: Here are all ...
The editors believe in an open and tolerant attitude towards defining who is a Sikh and that Sikh culture should be given free-reign to develop on its own, not suppressed. [2] The website therefore highlights any Sikhs who have been successful in Western and Indian pop-culture and society.
McLeod, W.H.:(ed.) Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1984., -: Who Is a Sikh? The Problem of Sikh Identity. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989. Harjot Oberoi, The Construction of Religious Boundaries : Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition, University Of Chicago Press 1994.