Young Sikhs in a Global World

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Bergen in Norway. He has published widely on religions in South Asia and in the South Asian diasporas. He is the editor, together with Selva J. Raj, of the book South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America that was published by Ashgate in 2008, and, together with Kristina Myrvold, the editor of Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations published by Ashgate in 2011. Kristina Myrvold is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She has specialized in Sikh studies and is the author of several publications on Sikh practices, historiography and migration. She is the editor of the book The Death of Sacred Texts: Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts published by Ashgate in 2010, and the editor, together with Knut A. Jacobsen, of Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations published by Ashgate in 2011.

’Young Sikhs in a Global World offers excitingly wide-ranging ethnographies of Sikhs in Europe, North America and cyberspace. These authoritative studies of the dynamics of being Punjabi, and being Sikh, while engaged both locally and transnationally, make a valuable contribution to understandings of identity formation, inter-generational relations and gender, diasporic literature and musical and linguistic transformations.’ Eleanor Nesbitt, University of Warwick, UK ’An excellent addition to the study of the Sikh community in Europe, the essays represent fresh voices, break new ground, and offer new insights about challenges confronting the generation of Sikhs growing up in Europe.’ Gurinder Singh Mann, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

• Introduction; I: Family and Home; 1: Family Values; 2: Young Sikhs in Finland; 3: Punjabi Youth in Northern Italy; 4: Punjabi across Generations; II: Representation and Gender; 5: The Impossible Hybridity of Hair; 6: Marking the Female Sikh Body; 7: Young Sikhs and Literature; 8: Becoming Men in the Global Village; III: Reflexivity and Translation; 9: Beyond Code-Switching; 10: Young Sikhs in Italy; 11: London Sikh Youth as British Citizenry; 12: Reflexivity