Fighting for faith and nation : dialogues with Sikh militants /
"A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."--Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
1997.
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| Series: | Series in contemporary ethnography.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs4b |
| Summary: | "A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."--Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB The ethnic and religious violence that characterizes the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence - either as victims or as perpetrators - gives new insights into both the sources of violent conflict and the potential for its resolution. Going beyond such easy labels as "fundamentalism" and "terrorism," Mahmood shows how complex and multifaceted the human experience of political violence actually is. Drawing on her extensive interviews and conversations with Sikh militants, she presents their accounts of the human rights abuses they suffer in India as well as their explanations of the philosophical tradition of martyrdom and meaningful death in the Sikh faith. While demonstrating how divergent the worldviews of participants in a conflict can be, Fighting for Faith and Nation gives reason to hope that our essential common humanity may provide grounds for a pragmatic resolution of conflicts like the one in Punjab, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the past fifteen years |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585127026 9780585127026 9780812200171 0812200179 9786613210654 661321065X 9780812233612 0812233611 9780812215922 0812215923 1283210657 9781283210652 |