The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: by Michael Nijhawan

March 4, 2017 by admin

By Michael Nijhawan

This booklet examines the long term results of violence at the daily cultural and spiritual practices of a more youthful new release of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Comparative in scope and the 1st to debate modern articulations of Sikh and Ahmadiyya identities inside of a unmarried body of reference, the publication assembles an important variety of empirical facts accrued over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork. In its specialise in precarious websites of identification formation, the amount engages with state of the art theories within the fields of severe diaspora reports, migration and refugee stories, faith, secularism, and politics. It provides a unique method of the studying of Ahmadi and Sikh subjectivities within the present weather of anti-immigrant hobbies and suspicion opposed to spiritual others. Michael Nijhawan additionally deals new insights into what animates rising routine of the formative years and their makes an attempt to reclaim types of the religious and political.

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