Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beyond Christian Canada : religion and ethnicity in a multicultural society / Paul Bramadat -- Part One : Ethnic identity and religious communities -- Hindus in Canada : negotiating identity in a "different" homeland / Sikata Banerjee and Harold Coward -- Sikhs in Canada : identity and commitment / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood -- Buddhists in Canada : impermanence in a land of change / Mathieu Boisvert -- The Chinese in Canada : their unrecognized religion / David Chuenyan Lai, Jordan Paper, and Li Chuang Paper -- Jews in Canada : a travelling cantor on the prairie, and other pictures of Canadian Jewish life / Norman Ravvin -- Muslims in Canada : from ethnic groups to religious community / Sheila McDonough and Homa Hoodfar -- Part two : Immplications for public policy -- Religion and public policy : immigration, citizenship, and multiculturalism- Guess who's coming to dinner? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…--Revolution in Education, by K. Robinson.--Sikh immigration into Malaya during the period of British rule, by K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Barrón Soto -- La migración india sikh en Mexico, 1920-1949 / Isabel Arline Duque-Saberi…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Balasubramanian -- Report on Sikh religious tradition / Bhajan S. Badwal -- Buddhism -- Report on Buddhism -- Thai Theravade Buddhist understanding of non-attachment : the Middle Way for culture and hermeneutics in a global age / Veerachart Nimanong -- Judaism -- Report on the Jewish religious tradition -- The other as person of God : from disdain to recognition : a reflection on the interfaith dialogue / Leon Kleniche -- God, philosophy, and Halakhah in Maimonides' approach to Judaism / David Hartnam and Elliott Yagod -- Comment by Isaac Franck -- Islam -- Report on Islam -- The relation between Islamic and Christian cultures / George F. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Long, Jacob Copeman, Magnus Marsden, Lam Minh Chau and Joanna Cook -- Mapping time, living space : the moral cartography of renovation in late socialist Vietnam / Susan Bayly -- Worlds united and apart : bridging divergence in Hanoi and beyond / Susan Bayly -- Soviet-style apartment blocks in Hanoi : an intellectual exchange in architecture / Nguyen Van Huy and Nguyen Vu Hoang -- Intellectual exchanges in Muslim Asia : intersections of history and geography / Magnus Marsden -- Super Singhs and kaurageous Kaurs : Sikh names, caste and disidentity politics / Jacob Copeman -- Retrieving the muted subject in the early socialist ecumene : the example of the Mongolian scholar Mergen Gombojab / Caroline Humphrey -- Intellectual exchange with hands : materiality and cosmology in manual sharing practices of an Asian sacred percussion / Sukanya Sarbadhikary -- Cooking the 'imperialist West' : the exchange of non-Marxist non-evolutionist ideas in Vietnamese institutionalized anthropology in the pre-renovation high-socialist period / Lam Minh Chau -- The ideal of intellectual exchange : study abroad, affect and the ambivalences of citizenship in post-Suharto Indonesia / Nicholas J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Intersection of Religious Identity and Visible Minority Status: The Case of Sikh Youth in British Columbia / Kamala Elizabeth Nayar -- 10. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inventing Ancient Civilization -- Land and water -- Open geography -- Prehistoric societies -- Ancient transformation -- Inventing empire -- Inventing civilization -- Aryavarta and imperial Bharat -- Imperial regions -- Medieval transitions -- Changing Medieval Territories -- A medieval epoch -- Early medievalism -- Spiritual powers -- Geographies of religion -- Making Hindu societies -- The rise of the warriors -- A medieval transition -- Mobility and cultural mixing -- Urban growth -- Expanding commercialism -- Emerging identities -- Medieval empire, modern threshold -- Indo-Persian imperial society -- Forming ethnicity -- Early Modern Regions -- Ethnic territory -- Family and patriarchy -- Inverting the map -- Eighteenth-century territorialism -- Europeans on the coast -- British imperialism -- Making Modern Societies -- Organizing empire -- Imperial capitalism -- National economy and world economy -- Modern imperial society -- Agrarian societies and imperial entitlements -- Origins of Nationality -- Inventing native society -- Language and authority -- India in Calcutta -- Shaking the empire -- Activism, identity, and nationality -- Creating Nations -- A new twentieth-century landscape -- An overview of empire's end: 1919-47 -- The invention of constitutional identities in the 1920s -- The distinctiveness of Bengal and Punjab -- The reconstitution of nationalities: 1931-47 -- Independence and partition -- Forging national unity -- National Environments -- Buddhist reformers, exiles, rules, and majoritarians -- Christian communities, reformers, minorities, and targets -- Sikh electorate, religion, rights, and territory -- Muslim societies, politics, minorities, and nationality -- Hindu societies, movements, politics, and Hindutva -- Country Profiles -- Bangladesh -- Bhutan -- India -- Maldives -- Nepal -- Pakistan -- Sri Lanka…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part one : Sinning in Asian religious traditions -- Social and soteriological aspects of sin and penance in Medieval Hindu law / David Brick -- Sin and expiation in Sikh texts and contexts : from the Nānak Panth to the Khālsā / Denis Matringe -- "Living without sin" : reflections on the pre-Buddhist world of early China / Michael Nylan -- Sin, sinification, sinology : on the notion of sin in Buddhism and Chinese religions / James Robson -- "The evil person is the primary recipient of the Buddha's compassion" : the Akunin Shōki theme in Shin Buddhism of Japan / James C. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Making Pilgrimage, Making Home: Sikh Sacred Soundings in Kenya -- 9. Tracing the Indian Ocean at the Cape: Locating Performance and Writing Practices of the Cape Muslim Community -- 10. …”

“…Subjects include the Indian government’s favoritism for Hinduism over rival religions; the way the Sikhs of India avoid the religion–politics divide; the way the Western media fails to fully understand the Chinese government’s policies on religious minorities; the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo demonstrations in France; religious attitudes toward tax politics in South Korea as well as among Christians compared to Muslims; how to lessen the radicalization of Muslims in Southeast Asia; whether Nigeria should encourage its Muslims to be active in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; the spiritual role played by the permaculture movement in Cuba; and how the former tendency of scholars to polarize religion and politics is no longer viable, especially in Latin America…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vivekananda and the scientific legitimation of Avaita Vedānta / Inverted orientalism, Vedic science, and the modern world : Bhaktivedanta and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness / Madame Blavatsky's children : modern Hindu encounters with Darwinism / The transcendental meditation organization and its encounter with science / The Sikh scientific ethic : worldly and mystical / The God experiment : Radhasoami's version of science and the rhetoric of guru succession / Judaism and Islam. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…(b) Diffusion of boundaries between self and other 'beings' -- (c) Possessing just enough for a 'healthy', non-luxurious living -- (d) Forces of nature (that cause happiness and sorrow) are beyond human control -- Healing through 'Broadening of Consciousness': Some evidence -- Healing as reorganizing self as a continuous process across time -- Śānti through karma -- Departed family member as an inspiration to performing one's karma -- Reflections: How I felt 'expanded'/harmonized during the research -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 14: Resolution of social conflicts: An Indian model -- Introduction -- The indigenous model -- A note on methodology -- An overview of the Chipko movement -- The holistic model of development -- Implications for psychology -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 15: Lālan-pālan: A psycho-spiritual experience for the Indian mother -- Childhood in a cultural context -- The context of the Indian (Hindu) family -- The Āyurvedic model of human development -- Childhood embedded in saṁskāras -- Motherhood and the concept of lālan-pālan: Learnings from mythological narratives -- Some contemporary trends -- Parenting in a north Indian city: Some observations -- Rituals, beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth -- Child-rearing practices -- Indulgence-protection -- Psycho-spiritual experience -- Concluding comments -- Endnote -- References -- Chapter 16: Being human the Sikh way: Some psychological reflections -- The idea and tradition of Sikhism -- The world of human experience -- Basic principles -- The structure of selfhood -- Haumai at the cosmic level of individuation -- Haumai at the individual level -- Karma -- Social consciousness -- Spiritual-mystical consciousness -- Individual, social and mystical domains: Self-consciousness -- Sikh vision of life and world view in the contemporary period…”

“…A follow-up to the 2006 work Targeted, the research underlying this book is based on extensive community consultations and interviews with Arab, Muslim and Sikh communities in Sydney. It maps the field and identifies common challenges with the aim of contributing to wider processes of innovation in community anti-racism work…”

“…His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion…”
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“…Schellenberg -- Macintyre, tradition-dependent rationality, and the end / Nancey Murphy -- A contemporary Jewish perspective on philosophy of religion / Joshua Golding -- The revival of philosophy among Muslims / Shabbur Akhtar -- The study of the self / Jonardon Ganeri -- Buddhist approaches : not what but how / David Webster -- Comparative philosophy of religion / David Cheetham -- Thinking differently in the context of Sikh religion / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- Philosophy of religion takes practice : liturgy as source and method in philosophy of religion / James K.A. …”

“…Should democracies exempt members of some minorities from certain legitimate or widely accepted rules, such as Canada's allowing Sikh members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to wear turbans instead of Stetsons? …”

“…Why, for example, can a religious soup kitchen get an exemption from zoning laws in order to expand its facilities to better serve the needy, while a secular soup kitchen with the same goal cannot? Why is a Sikh boy permitted to wear his ceremonial dagger to school while any other boy could be expelled for packing a knife? …”