Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World Mandair Arvind-Pal Singh
Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World Mandair Arvind-Pal Singh Sikhism, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of…
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Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World Mandair Arvind-Pal Singh
Sikhism, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of cross-cultural philosophy. He asks what Sikh philosophical concepts tell us about the nature of reality, the relationship between mind/self/ego, and whether it is possible to discern broad contours of a Sikh logic, epistemology and ontology. In this introduction, Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, an internationally acknowledged expert in Sikh studies, provides the first rigorous engagement in the West with Sikh philosophy.Sensitive both to the historical formation of Sikh thought, and to the decolonial context in which he writes, Mandair examines some of the key concepts of Sikh philosophy and how they inform its vision of life.
Additionally, the book looks at how these concepts address broader themes such as the body, health and well-being, creation and cosmology, death and