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This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.

Religion & beliefs --- Sikh --- western women --- status of women --- India --- colonial --- diaspora --- missionaries --- travelogue --- suttee --- infanticide --- friendship --- gender, religion and sexuality --- Sikh literature and gender representations --- Sikh diaspora and gender --- lived religions and Sikhism --- postcolonial life narratives and gender --- trauma, testimonies and bearing witness --- Sikhism --- gender --- gender construction --- Dasam Granth --- Sikhs --- Siri Guru Granth --- Rahit Maryada --- punj kakar --- gurdwara --- feminist thought --- Sikh religion --- masculinity --- gender roles --- women’s education --- women and Sikhism --- Sikh women in Italy --- seva performances --- Sikh youth --- Sikhs in Italy --- gurdwaras in Italy --- caste --- intersectionality --- householding --- counterpublic --- embodiment --- ethnography --- prayer --- violence --- widowhood --- Sikh women and gender --- Sikh diaspora --- Canadian Sikhs --- Sikh millennials --- Sikh chic --- Sikh entrepreneur --- Sikh values --- Khalsa --- Sikh fashion --- Sikhs in Barcelona --- identity (re)construction --- gender relations --- agency --- hypermasculinity --- misogyny --- sexism --- good girl --- bad girl --- bhangra --- rap --- Hard Kaur --- masculinities --- gangs --- British Columbia --- moral panics --- Punjabis --- Khalistanis --- Sikhs in France --- undocumented migration --- construction sector --- fitness --- philanthropy --- n/a --- women's education

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This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.

Religion & beliefs --- Sikh --- western women --- status of women --- India --- colonial --- diaspora --- missionaries --- travelogue --- suttee --- infanticide --- friendship --- gender, religion and sexuality --- Sikh literature and gender representations --- Sikh diaspora and gender --- lived religions and Sikhism --- postcolonial life narratives and gender --- trauma, testimonies and bearing witness --- Sikhism --- gender --- gender construction --- Dasam Granth --- Sikhs --- Siri Guru Granth --- Rahit Maryada --- punj kakar --- gurdwara --- feminist thought --- Sikh religion --- masculinity --- gender roles --- women's education --- women and Sikhism --- Sikh women in Italy --- seva performances --- Sikh youth --- Sikhs in Italy --- gurdwaras in Italy --- caste --- intersectionality --- householding --- counterpublic --- embodiment --- ethnography --- prayer --- violence --- widowhood --- Sikh women and gender --- Sikh diaspora --- Canadian Sikhs --- Sikh millennials --- Sikh chic --- Sikh entrepreneur --- Sikh values --- Khalsa --- Sikh fashion --- Sikhs in Barcelona --- identity (re)construction --- gender relations --- agency --- hypermasculinity --- misogyny --- sexism --- good girl --- bad girl --- bhangra --- rap --- Hard Kaur --- masculinities --- gangs --- British Columbia --- moral panics --- Punjabis --- Khalistanis --- Sikhs in France --- undocumented migration --- construction sector --- fitness --- philanthropy

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Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumansLiterary Bioethics argues for literature as an untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics. Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those values; and the more plausible and well rendered readers find these imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of those values. In an innovative set of readings, Linett thinks through the ethics of animal experimentation in H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, explores the elimination of aging in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, considers the valuation of disabled lives in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, and questions the principles of humane farming through reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, where cloned human beings are used systematically by the government as organ donors. By analyzing novels published at widely spaced intervals over the span of a century, Linett offers snapshots of how we confront questions of value.In some cases the fictions are swayed by dominant devaluations of nonnormative or nonhuman lives, while in other cases they confirm the value of such lives by resisting instrumental views of their worth--views that influence, explicitly or implicitly, many contemporary bioethical discussions, especially about the value of disabled and nonhuman lives. Literary Bioethics grapples with the most fundamental questions of how we value different kinds of lives, and questions what those in power ought to be permitted to do with those lives as we gain unprecedented levels of technological prowess.

English fiction --- Bioethics in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Human body and technology in literature. --- American fiction --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- History and criticism. --- Aging. --- Aldous Huxley. --- Alison Kafer. --- Animal ethics. --- Animal studies. --- Animal welfare. --- Brave New World. --- Cloning. --- Conceptions of the human. --- Curative imaginary. --- Deafness. --- Disability studies. --- Dsiability. --- Dystopia. --- Engineered human beings. --- Ethics of fiction. --- Eugenics. --- Flannery O’Connor. --- Genetic enhancement. --- H.G. Wells. --- Human exceptionalism. --- Humane farming. --- Intellectual disability. --- Kazuo Ishiguro. --- Liberal eugenics. --- Life narratives. --- Life stages. --- Martha Nussbaum. --- Moral worth. --- Never Let Me Go. --- Resistant reading practices. --- The Island of Doctor Moreau. --- The Violent Bear It Away. --- Thought experiments. --- Value of lives. --- Vivisection. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Flannery O'Connor. --- Aging;Aldous Huxley;Alison Kafer;Animal ethics;Animal studies;Animal welfare;Brave New World. --- Hearing loss --- Audiology --- Ear --- Hearing disorders --- Hearing --- People with disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- Idiocy --- Intellectual disabilities --- Mental deficiency --- Mental retardation --- Developmental disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- People with mental disabilities --- Experiments, Thought --- Methodology --- Anti-vivisection --- Animal experimentation --- Animal welfare --- Biology, Experimental --- Medicine, Experimental --- Genetic engineering --- Reproduction, Asexual --- Diseases --- Study and teaching --- Curricula --- Bioethics in literature..

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This is a collection of articles by established scholars in the fields of History, Philosophy, Literature and Religious Studies. These are original essays which address the issues and concerns that now dominate the study of religion in its multiple dimensions with a fresh approach. They critique settled opinions and raise new and engaging questions concerning cultural hermeneutics and the academic study of religion. Embellished with a substantive and topical introduction by the editor, this collection of articles will be of abiding interest to scholars and interested lay persons alike.

John Robert Seeley --- Bankimchandra Chatterjee --- natural religions --- hagiography --- auto/biography --- Victorian Jesus --- carita as genre --- life narratives in colonial Bengal --- Krishnacaritra --- secularism --- Swami Vivekananda --- Jyotirmaya Sharma --- Hindu nationalism --- Hindutva --- religious pluralism --- religious inclusivism --- caste system --- Sri Ramakrishna --- Bābā Farīd --- bhakti --- Bhāgavata-purāṇa --- Bulleh Shāh --- Caṇḍīdās --- Hīr-Rāṇjhā --- Ibn ‘Arabī --- Rabindranath Tagore --- Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa --- Rūmī --- Sufism --- Vaiṣṇavism --- Vidyāpati --- virahiṇī --- Wāris Shāh --- Yūsuf-Zulaikhā --- Śrīdhara --- Bhāgavata --- Purāṇa --- commentary --- Caitanya --- Gauḍīya --- Jīva Gosvāmī --- digital Hinduism --- god posters --- Shani --- Hindu images --- Hinduism and mediatization --- Bengal --- Vaiṣṇava --- colonial --- gender --- women --- Srīkanḍa --- gaura nāgara vāda --- Viṣnupriyā --- Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa --- Vedānta --- Ādi Śaṁkara --- Advaita --- Upaniṣads --- brahman --- ātman --- Śakti --- vijñāna --- samādhi --- Hinduism --- Vedanta --- philosophy of religion --- yoga --- n/a --- Bābā Farīd --- Bhāgavata-purāṇa --- Bulleh Shāh --- Caṇḍīdās --- Hīr-Rāṇjhā --- Ibn 'Arabī --- Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa --- Rūmī --- Vaiṣṇavism --- Vidyāpati --- virahiṇī --- Wāris Shāh --- Yūsuf-Zulaikhā --- Śrīdhara --- Bhāgavata --- Purāṇa --- Gauḍīya --- Jīva Gosvāmī --- Vaiṣṇava --- Srīkanḍa --- gaura nāgara vāda --- Viṣnupriyā --- Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa --- Vedānta --- Ādi Śaṁkara --- Upaniṣads --- ātman --- Śakti --- vijñāna --- samādhi