The initial post must be at least 270 words!!!!, the 3 reply posts must be as accurate as possible
Articles
Bhandar. (2017). New NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh battles racism in Canadian politics with love. The Conversation. https://search.proquest.com/wire-feeds/jagmeet-singh-battles-racism-canadian-politics/docview/1944359267/se-2?accountid=142373
Singh, A. K. (2000). The universal ideal of Sikhism. Global Dialogue. Nicosia, 2(1), 99-108. https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/universal-ideal-sikhism/docview/211509026/se-2?accountid=142373
Zabeen, K. (2020). Disruptive garb: Gender production and millennial Sikh fashion enterprises in Canada. Religions, 11(4), 160. https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/disruptive-garb-gender-production-millennial-sikh/docview/2385989788/se-2?accountid=142373
Video
Gill, R. S. (2016, November 15). The oneness of God and the diversity of religions: A Sikh perspective [Video]. California Lutheran University. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/phillips_lectures/15/
Using the readings and video, answer the following:
How are the moral and religious attitudes of Sikhism evident in the
conduct of Jagmeet Singh as he contends with harassment? Furthermore,
how does the “online values-based fashion” of “Sikh chic” contend with
norms within the Sikh community?
SIKHISM
– RELIGION AND SOCIETY | SPIRITUAL REALITY IN SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT
It
is evident that we live in an economico-politically driven type of
society, – especially when it comes to the Western world, and especially when
it comes to the NorthAmerican segment of the Western world.
Obviously – or, maybe, not so obviously? – the real power, the economical/corporate
power, gets to select, structure, establish its instruments of action in the
social milieu: the structures of political power.
This type of ‘social recipe’ moves our human reality, quite obviously, farther
and farther from what used to be, – from what it, actually, must be
– its actual center: spirituality.
This ‘divorce’ from the spiritual center of Life, – conveniently presented as a
form/symptom of progress – has many consequences, at many levels.
Trouble is, once we step into this matrix of ‘progress’ and allow ourselves to
be mesmerized and seduced by it, big majority of these consequences become
invisible: our senses meant to perceive them get atrophied and the matrix
becomes the actual, perfect reality.
One of the regrettable consequences of this phenomenon – much more damaging
than it seems – is the inverting, the subversion, the overthrowing of the actual,
natural scale of human values in favour of a strategically/politically
created, artificial one, meant to re-direct the real human
sense of value: meant to turn the free human sense of value into
a directed one.
We become characters in a script that is not written by us – not even with us being
aware.
In this context/script, the political values seem essential and the spiritual
values seem peripheral. Our sense of ‘central’, ‘essential’ is being pushed
from the spiritual horizon towards the political reality: “ ‘It is 6.oo o’clock
in the afternoon and this is what we want you to think’ – CNN”.
Once the spiritual center lost, the human being can be fed anything – any image
of reality, any sense of truth, any pattern of thinking etc: this is how the
matrix exists.
In
this situation, one of the most natural phenomena – and most evident, in many
aspects – immediately noticeable in the human society is a clash between the
spiritual values and the political ones: a clash between a spiritual
sense of reality and a politically-driven strategy of manipulating
our sense of reality.
VERY
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND: This phenomenon is being ‘interfaced’ by the smoky
image and idea of a clash between religions: the sense of tension, the
sense of clash is being deviated from its real context – spiritual ÷ political
– towards a scenario that serves well the political agenda, – the pretended
clash between religions.
Of course, this has a deeper effect: the instillation of the idea that religion,
in its biasness, rigidity and exclusivity, tends to naturally be a conflictual
phenomenon, obsolete, disconnected from the actual reality etc, a
perpetual source of tension and an unbearable burden for the
progressive, contemporary world.
Of course, once we take the pill of clash between religions we become
unable to see the real clash, – the one between spirituality
and politics.
