ABSTRACT

In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and considers how they interpret, shape and negotiate religious identities, traditions, and authority on an individual and collective level. With a particular focus on the experiences of second generation Sikhs as they interact with various people in different social fields and cultural contexts, the book is constructed around three parts: 'family and home', 'public display and gender', and 'reflexivity and translations'. New scholarly voices and established academics present qualitative research and ethnographic fieldwork and analyse how young Sikhs try to solve social, intellectual and psychological tensions between the family and the expectations of the majority society, between Punjabi culture and religious values.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Young Sikhs in a Global World

part I|81 pages

Family and Home

chapter 1|20 pages

Family Values

The Impact of Family Background on the Religious Lives of Young British Sikhs

chapter 2|16 pages

Young Sikhs in Finland

Feeling at Home Nowhere, Everywhere, in Between and Beyond

chapter 3|20 pages

Punjabi Youth in Northern Italy

The Family, Belonging and Freedom

chapter 4|24 pages

Punjabi across Generations

Language Affiliation and Acquisition among Young Swedish Sikhs

part II|93 pages

Representation and Gender

chapter 5|28 pages

The Impossible Hybridity of Hair

Kesh, Gender and the Third Space

chapter 6|24 pages

Marking the Female Sikh Body

Reformulating and Legitimating Sikh Women's Turbaned Identity on the World Wide Web

chapter 7|18 pages

Young Sikhs and Literature

Identity Formations in Sikh Creative Writing in Norway

chapter 8|22 pages

Becoming Men in the Global Village

Young Sikhs Reenacting Bhangra Masculinities

part III|85 pages

Reflexivity and Translation

chapter 9|18 pages

Beyond Code-Switching

Young Punjabi Sikhs in Britain

chapter 10|22 pages

Young Sikhs in Italy

A Plural Presence for an Intergenerational Dialogue

chapter 11|30 pages

London Sikh Youth as British Citizenry

A Frontier of the Community's Global Identity?

chapter 12|14 pages

Reflexivity

Language, Power and Capital When Researching Sikhs