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“Prohibited Speech: Colonialism, Blasphemy Laws, and Communal Violence.” Marginalia Review of Books (2024)
“Unsayable Word: Gurbani, Punjabi Poetry and the Postsecular Impulse.” Literature and Theology (2024).
“Diasporic Impulses: Sikh Philosophy as an Assemblage.” Philosophy East and West (2024).
“Sikh Philosophy: Transforming Self, World and Society.” In The Sage Handbook of Global Theology, edited by Gurminder Bhamra, et al. London: Sage Publications, 2024.
“An Unsettling Year.” Sikh Formations Vol. 19, no. 4, 2023.
“Death, Deathless States & Time-Consciousness in Sikh Philosophy.” Religious Studies (2023): 1–13. (OPEN ACCESS)
“Guru, Śabad & Khalsa: Exploring Conceptual Intersections.” In The Sikh World, edited by Pashaura Singh and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. London: Routledge, 2023.
“Sociopolitical Aspects of Sikh Philosophy.” In The Sikh World, edited by Pashaura Singh and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. London: Routledge, 2023.
“Modern Sikh Studies.” In The Sikh World, edited by Pashaura Singh and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. London: Routledge, 2023.
“Introduction.” In The Sikh World, edited by Pashaura Singh and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. London: Routledge, 2023.
“Śabda-guru: Conflicts of Guruship, Mediational Phenomenology and Śabda-philosophy in Sikhism.” In Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital, edited by Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer and Koonal Guggal. University College London Press, 2023.
“Transcendence and the Modern Sikh Subject: Analyzing Bhai Vir Singh’s Theology.” In Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Religious and Literary Modernities in Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Punjab, edited by Anshu Malhotra and Anne Murphy. London: Routledge, 2023.
“Translating Sikh Scripture and Sikh Lifeworlds.” In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion, edited by Hephzibah Israel. London: Routledge, 2022.
“Interview with Prof. George Yancy in the journal Tikkun.” Tikkun Magazine, June 15th, 2021. https://www.tikkun.org/eastern-religions-on-death-and-the-afterlife/
“Teaching ‘Philosophy of Sikhism’”
“Autoimmune Response: American Insurrection”
“Exploring Consciousness II: The Secular/Religious Dichotomy And Consciousness Studies”
“Exploring Consciousness I”
“Exorcising Racism II: Liberalisms & Racial Exclusion”
“Exorcising Racism I: Dialogues On The Current Uprisings”
“Žižek On The Covid-19 PAN(Dem)IC And Communism”
“Class Consciousness, Sport & The Lockdown”
“Class Consciousness: A Sticky Issue”
“Teaching Race/Religion/Caste – Geopolitical Schematic”
“Visceral Memories of Race: Coventry in the 1970s and 80s”
“Im/Materialities: Diaspora as a New Image of Translation.” Religion 49. no. 3 (2019): 413–438.
“Sikh Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices.” In The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying, edited by Christopher Moreman. New York: Routledge, 2018.
“Decolonizing Secularism’s Conceptual Matrix.” In Comparative Studies of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa 38, no. 2 (2018): 443–451.
“Translation.” In Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches, edited by Richard King. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
“Hegel: On Secularity and the Religion-Making Machine.“ In Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches, edited by Richard King. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
“Postcolonialism.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion, edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Sikhs, Sovereignty and Modern Government.” In Religion as a Category of Government and Sovereignty, edited by Timothy Fitzgerald, Naomi Goldenberg and Trevor Stack. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing, 2015.
“Lived Abstractions: ‘Sikh Philosophy’ as a Practice of Everyday Life.” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 11, no. 1–2 (2015): 174–189.
“Akali Dal.” In Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer, 2015.
“Sikh Ethics.” In Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer, 2015.
“Time.” In Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer, 2015.
“Sikhi/Sikhism.” In Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer, 2015.
“Gurmukhi Script.” In Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer, 2015.
“Singh Sabha Reform Movement.” In Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer, 2015.
“Sikh Philosophy.” In The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies, edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis Fenech, 298–314. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Ideologies of the Christian Secular Continuum: Reflections on the Oak Creek Tragedy.” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory 9, no. 2, (2013): 199–208.
“Aporias of the Postsecular.” Religion 42, no. 1 (2012): 131–139.
“Valences of the Dialectic: Un-Inheriting the Religion-Secular Binary in Sikh Studies.” Religions of South Asia 4, no. 2 (2012): 233–253.
“Modernity, Religion-making and the Postsecular.” In Secularism and Religion-Making, edited by Arvind-Pal Mandair and Markus Dressler. Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Translations of Violence: Revisiting Discourses of Sikh Ethnonationalism.” In Secularism and Religion-Making, edited by Arvind-Pal Mandair and Markus Dressler. Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Uneasy Repetitions.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 23 (2011): 175–189.
“A Phantasmatic Reading: Reply to Saurabh Dube.” In Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations and Resistances, edited by Peter Gottschalk and Matt. D. Schmalz. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
“Sikhism and Healthcare.” In World Religions and the Healthcare Professions, edited by S. Sorajakool. London: Routledge, 2009.
“Interdictions: Derrida and the Disorders of Indian Identity.” Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation and Culture 13, no. 3 (2007): 337–63.
“Introduction to (dis) Locations: Language, Autobiography and Identity in Dialogue with Jacques Derrida.” Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation and Culture 13, no. 3 (2007): 257–259.
“The Emergence of Modern ‘Sikh Theology’: Reassessing the Passage of Ideas from Trumpp to Bhai Vir Singh.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68, no. 2 (June 2005): 253–274.
“The Unbearable Proximity of the Orient: Political Religion, Multiculturalism and the Retrieval of South Asian Identities.” Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation and Culture 10, no. 5, (2004): 647–663.
“The Politics of Non-Duality: The Work of Transcendence in Modern Sikh Hermeneutics.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73, no. 3 (January 2006): 646–674.
“Hegel’s Excess: Indology, Historical Difference & the Post-Secular Turn of Theory.” Post-Colonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy 9, no. 1 (2006): 15–34.
“Refusals: Opening and Difference in Dialogue.” Editorial and edited special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, edited by Arvind-Pal Mandair and Cosimo Zene, 12, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 1–3.
“The Global Fiduciary: Mediating the Violence of ‘Religion’.” In Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice, edited by John Hinnells and Richard King, 200–213. London: Routledge, 2006.
“The Repetition of Past Imperialisms: Hegel, Historical Difference and the Theorization of Indic Religions.” History of Religions 44, no. 4 (May 2005): 278–299. Reprinted in Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations and Resistances, edited by Peter Gottschalk and Matt D Schmalz. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
“Introduction to ‘Dialogue as the Inscription of the West.’” Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation and Culture 11, no. 3 (2005): 171–175.
“The Subject of Sikh Studies.” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 1, no.1 (2005): 1–11.
“Sikhism.” In Encyclopedia of India, edited by Stanley Wolpert and P.T. Raju. Detroit: MacMillans Scribner and Gale Publishers, 2005.
“Sikh Political Institutions.” In Encyclopedia of India, edited by Stanley Wolpert and P.T. Raju. Detroit: MacMillans Scribner and Gale Publishers, 2005.
“Auto-Immunity in the Study of Religions.” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Theology and Ethics 43, no. 2 (2004): 63–85. Reprinted in Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion, edited by Purushottama Bilimoria and Andrew Irvine. B.V. Netherlands: Springer, 2009.
“(Im)possible Intersections: Religion, Post-Colonial Subjectivity and the Ideology of Multiculturalism.” In Post Colonial Peoples: South Asians in Britain, edited by Bobby Sayid and Virinder Kalra. London: Hurst and Co. Publishers.
“What if Religion Remained Untranslatable…?” In Difference in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Philip Goodchild. Burlington, V.T.: Ashgate Publishing, 2003.
“Ethics of Sikhism.” In Religious Ethics: A Sourcebook, edited by Arthur Dobrin. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 2003.
“Thinking Differently About Religion and History: Issues for Sikh Studies.” In Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity, edited by Arvind-Pal Mandair, Christopher Shackle, and Gurharpal Singh. London: Curzon Press, 2001.
“Interrogating Identity: Culture, Writing and Subaltern Politics.” In Punjabi Identity: Continuity and Change, edited by Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh. New Delhi: Manohar, 1996.
“Writing Otherwise Than Identity: Translation and Cultural Hegemony.” In Globalisation and the Region: Explorations in Punjabi Identity, edited by Pritam Singh and S. Thandi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.
“Interpreting the Interpretive Process: The Ambivalence of Sikh Tradition.” International Journal of Punjab Studies 2, no. 2 (1997): 117–138.
“Akhand Path as A Problem in Cultural Transmission.” Sikh Bulletin 10 (1993).
Scientific Journal Articles
“Charge Transfer Interactions in Smectite Clays.” Inorganica Chimica Acta 134 (1987): 99–103.
“Investigations of the Thermochemistry of Laponite and Hectorite.” Polyhedron: International Journal of Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry 9, no. 4 (1990): 517–525.
“The Chemistry of Ceramic Glazes II: The Influence of the Oxides Na2o, CaO and Al2O3 on the Thermolysis of Laponite.” Polyhedron: International Journal of Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry 10, no. 1 (1991): 55–60.
“The Chemistry of Simple Ceramic Glazes III: A MASNMR Study of Simulated Feldspars.” Polyhedron: International Journal of Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry 9, no. 14 (1990): 1709–1716.