Table of Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. Guru Nanak and his first successors ; 3. Guru Granth Sahib ; 4. Turban, Khalsa, and codes of conduct ; 5. The Nineteenth Century ; 6. The Twentieth Century: Ways of being Sikh ; 7. Sikhism outside India ; 8. Attitudes to caste, gender, and other faiths ; 9. Religion in the Twenty-first Century

About the Author

Eleanor Nesbitt specialises in ethnographic study of the UK's Hindu and Sikh communities. She is Reader in Religions and Education at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick. Her books include: Intercultural Education: Ethnographic and Religious Approaches; Interfaith Pilgrims; The Religious Lives of Sikh Children: A Coventry Based Study; Guru Nanak (with Gopinder Kaur); and Hindu Children in Britain (with Robert Jackson).

Reviews

"This book on Sikhism is a little gem. Nesbitt writes beautifully and succinctly... There will be no excuse for not knowing something about Sikhism in the future." Carrie Mercer, Shap World Religions in Education