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Fighting for Faith and Nation
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Fighting for Faith and Nation Paperback - 1996

by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

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The ethnic and religious violence that characterized 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.

Drawing on her extensive interviews and conversations with Sikh militants, Cynthia Keppley Mahmood presents their accounts of the human rights abuses inflicted on them by the state of India as well as their explanations of the philosophical tradition of martyrdom and meaningful death in the Sikh faith. While demonstrating how divergent the world views 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 such as the one in Punjab which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the past fifteen years.

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"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Title Fighting for Faith and Nation
  • Author Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing.
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
  • Publication date 1996-11-01
  • ISBN 9780812215922 / 0812215923
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.83 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.11 cm)
  • Reading level 1350
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Indian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Sikhism, Sikhs - Politics and government
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96-34959
  • Dewey Decimal Code 954.914

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  • Library Journal, 01/01/1997, Page 124

About the author

Cynthia Keppley Mahmood is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine, Orono.

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