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This work is a critical analysis of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective. It begins with Guru Nanak's vision of Transcendent Reality and concludes with the mystical journey of Rani Raj Kaur, the heroine of a modern Punjabi epic. The eight chapters of the book approach the Sikh vision of the Transcendent from historical, scriptural, symbolic, mythological, romantic, existential, ethical and mystical perspectives. Each of these discloses the centrality of the woman, and show convincingly that Sikh Gurus and poets did not want the feminine principle to serve merely as a figure of speech or literary device; it was intended rather to pervade the whole life of the Sikhs. The present work bolsters the claim that literary symbols should be translated into social and political realities, and in so doing puts a valuable feminist interpretation on a religious tradition which has remained relatively unexplored in scholarly literature.

Women in Sikhism. --- Feminism --- Sikhism --- Femininity (Philosophy) --- Religious aspects --- Sikhism. --- Doctrines. --- Femininity (philosophy) --- Femininity (philosophy). --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Feminism - Religious aspects - Sikhism. --- Sikhism - Doctrines. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy --- Sikh feminism

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The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America harvests the fruits of 25 years of scholarship on the history and current state of women's religious experience in North America. The result of a five-year project led by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether and funded by the Lilly Endowment and the Henry Luce Foundation, the encyclopedia marshals the talents of more than 150 scholars to produce the most comprehensive and up-to-date description and analysis of women and religion in

Women --- Women and religion --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Religious aspects --- Religious life --- Indians of North America --- Catholic women. --- Protestant women. --- Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Jewish women. --- Muslim women. --- Buddhist women. --- Hindu women. --- Women in Confucianism. --- Taoist women. --- Women in Sikhism. --- Women in Jainism. --- Women missionaries. --- Ordination of women. --- Religion and social problems. --- Religion.