The precarious diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya generations : violence, memory, and agency /: violence, memory, and agency. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Nijhawan.
• Authors: Nijhawan, Michael
• Contents: Dedication; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1984; Frankfurt and Toronto; Generations; Heterodoxy and Heresy; Overview; Notes; References; Chapter 2: The Violent Event and the Temporal Dimensions of Diasporas; Heterodox Claims and Prophetic Times; Precarious Thresholds of Time; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Religious Subjectivity in Spaces of the Otherwise; Commitments; sangat; dukkh; charhdi kala; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Radiating Effect of the Asylum Court on Religion; The Activist Court. The Threshold of Credibility"Just Like Don Quichote": The Judge as Cultural Arbiter; Recasting the Forum Internum; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Fabricating Suspicious Religious Others; The Anti-Mosquers' Discourse; Fabricating Ahmadis as Suspicious Religious Subjects; Distant Beards and Pulp Moderns; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Daughters and Sons of '84: Dissenting Performances of Labor and Love; "Terrorist Bodies" and "Samosa Politics"; Sons of '84; Daughters of '84; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: The Ordinary and Prophetic Voice of Postmemory Work. A Give-and-Take Discourse of BelongingGeneration Postmemory; The Family-Jamat Nexus; Sermons for Sufferers; Reclaiming Voice After Crisis; Notes; References; Postscript; Memories of a Bird; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 908.82946; Sikh diaspora; Sikhs -- Cultural assimilation; Muslims -- Cultural assimilation; Panjabis (South Asian people); HISTORY -- General; Muslims -- Cultural assimilation; Panjabis (South Asian people); Sikh diaspora; Sikhs -- Cultural assimilation; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137488541; 1137488549; 1137499591; 9781137499592
• Related ISBNs: 9781137499592
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 19, 2016).
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