Some Essays by Douglas Tennant

RS 398 – Directed Reading Course - book summary.   Douglas Tennant B.Sc., B.A., CMMIII, Instructor:   Dr. Doris Jakobsh April 4, 2018 Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World , by Tony Ballantyne. Duke University Press: Durham, 2006. 229 pages. Summarised by Douglas Tennant. A book summary of Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World , by Tony Ballantyne. Introduction Tony Ballantyne, is a professor and senior lecturer in the History and Art History Department at University of Otago Asian Studies in New Zealand. His book is based upon research he conducted for his Ph.D. and which was completed under the auspices of a grant from the University of Otago. Ballantyne intends the book to be less of a traditional academic history book about the Sikh religion and more of the essence that it “be read as an attempt to reframe the Sikh past through close attention to the cultural traffi

RS 398 – Directed Reading Course - book summary.   Douglas Tennant B.Sc., B.A., CMMIII, Instructor:   Dr. Doris Jakobsh January 31, 2018 The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition , by Harjot Oberoi. Oxford University Press: Delhi, 1994. 494 pages. Reviewed by Douglas Tennant. A book summary of The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition , by Harjot Oberoi. Introduction Harjot Oberoi, professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, affirms that Sikhs in the northern Indian sub-continent, for much of their history, lived their religious lives within a localised, diverse, and pluralistic setting. They went about their daily affairs incorporating rituals, local pilgrimages and a broad spectrum of acts of religious piety without being constrained by specific religious tradition boundaries. Oberoi traces the construction and evolution of

RS 398 – Directed Reading Course – book critique.   . Douglas Tennant BSc, BA, CMMIII,  Instructor:   Dr. Doris Jakobsh March 14, 2018 Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation , by Arvind-Pal Singh. Mandair. Columbia University Press: New York, 2009. 516 pages. Critiqued by Douglas Tennant. A critique of Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation . Introduction             Sikhism, Sikh ontotheology, postcolonial theory, and other theoretical, politico-philosophical attachments concomitant to the ‘translation’ of Sikh scripture, are the foundational focal points analysed against the significant haunting influence of European colonialism in this study by Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair. Mandair is an associate professor of Asian languages and cultures and professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan. He left the chemicals industry