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This thesis examines Sikh groups in Britain and the implications these have for criteria related to the issue of Sikh identity. Five groups have been selected. They are: the Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jama; the Namdharis; the Ravidasls; the Valmikis; and the Sikh Dharma of the Wes…

The dissertation, The Most Scientific Religion: The Religious Discourse of Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Applied Science Professionals , is a sociological study of immigrant engineers and IT professionals and students and their religious discourse. The dissertation examines how work p…

Music plays a significant role in Sikh worship. The link between Sikh music and worship can be traced back to the origins of Sikhism when its founder, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, first professed God's message accompanied by divine music emanating from a rabab. Singing God's words in raag…

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Defying the expectations of scholarship predicting that religion will continue to decline, religion remains an influential force that shapes the lives of everyday people. Religious beliefs and communities provide people with cultural tools to understand the world around them, sh…

The performance of devotional music in India has been an active, sonic conduit where spiritual identities are shaped and forged, and both history and mythology lived out and remembered daily. For the followers of Sikhism, congregational hymn singing has been the vehicle through …