Sikhism Document Analysis

The Sikhs are devotees to Sikhism, Sikhism is the youngest of the world’s religion with 25 million followers. Sikhism is only five hundred years old. The founder of Sikhism is Guru Nank, he was born in 1469. Guru Nank spoke a message of “Ek Ong Kar”: we are all one, created by the One Creator of all Creation. Guru Nank was the first of the ten Gurus in Sikhism. Throughout my research I have discovered what each Guru represents to the Sikh community and where Sikhism originated from. The appearance of Sikh devotees is a very important part of the Punjabi Sikh culture. Sikhs are very misunderstood in America and when people see images of Sikhs they are often mistaken for Muslims or terrorists, which often times leads to hate crimes. I’ll be focusing on the history of the Sikhism, Sikhs appearance, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism. In the end I would like my audience to have an understanding of the Sikh religion, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism.

“Many current discussions about sustainability focus on the ways in which human activity...can be maintained in the future without exhausting all of our current resources… there has been a close correlation between the growth of human society and environmental degradation - as communities grow, the environment often declines” (603).

Aldo Leopold laid the foundation for environmental awareness decades ahead of a “ecological conscience” (257). There have many pleas to reconnect humanity with nature since the release of Leopold’s cherished book. Intuition and reason tell us that living in harmony with our world is more than idealistic—the future of our planet depends on it. The desire for harmony is not new one. Humans have long time sought to live in peace. It is genuine feelings of love and

Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world is five hundred years old. Like Hinduism, Sikhism also

Leopold discusses conservation as homo sapien involvement to respect, love, and care for the ecosystem. That we need to step back at certain times to appreciate the environment, but also harvest from the landscape and bear fruit. So conservation involves both human and non human involvement. Understanding this concept further we need to understand how we do not care and respect the environment. We need to learn what our communities problem

The Western world is the dominant society with specific parameters for modernity, which understands nature-people relationships from a perspective that is grounded on human domination over the environment. Nature is regarded as a provider of resources (e.g. oil, timber, cupper, rubber, etc.) for the profit and greed of a market-based economy that seeks infinite development. Consequently, the human-nature relationships are subject-object, implying

Humankind co-exists with the natural world many may say. However, humankind is constantly drifting away from nature, and we as humans no longer interact with the natural world around us. Today most of the society focuses on technology and other aspects that distract us from being in contact with nature. As we grow in our lives we seem to die in our interactions with nature, causing us to become less involved, and then that causes nature to die itself. From us neglecting the environment we suffer great consequences with the natural world and within ourselves. We lack the ability to understand and connect with the environment, and with us not focused on our world we cause it to become into dangerous hands. We no longer should just sit back and

The environment can be described as all those elements, both the living and the non-living that surrounds us. The environment can also refer to the condition within which individuals, animals and plants lives. Mankind has a role to play in the environment, which mainly concerns taking care of the environment as well as improving it. Since, we as human beings are different from animals as we have a gift consciousness, we have an obligation of being improvers of the environment through ensuring that we observe environmental consciousness and that we avoid all those practices that negatively affects the environment and cause ecological crisis and problems. This essay will use the article “Towards a Buddhist Environmental Ethics” by Rita M Gross to help in the answering of the question “What is our appropriate role in relation the environment?” The essay will additionally look into the concept of ‘deep ecology’ by Bill Devall and George Sessions to get a deeper understanding of the ecology and our relationship with it, a concept that will help us to be in a better position to answer our appropriate role concerning the environment.

The topic I have chosen for researching from different sources is Sikhism. In this paper I will explore the religious we well as the cultural beliefs of people following Sikhism.

In this text, William Cronon analyzes the perspective of nature in today’s society. The author elaborates on the concept of nature and the environment; Cronon challenges popular ideas related to these concepts. According to the text, there are many perspectives of nature throughout society. These different perspectives influence how we react and view the environment. A prominent view that is mentioned in the text is nature as something that is “out there.” In short, this perspective perceives nature as something separate from humanity. For example, a person might take a trip into nature and return back to their home that is separate from the nature they experienced. Cronon challenges this perspective by implying that nature might not be disconnected

Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world. The religion has a population of upwards of over thirty million worldwide. The United Sates alone has over two hundred fifty thousand Sikh. Sikhism is a monotheistic religion like many other major religions. Sikhism was founded around the year of 1469 and was an Indian religion. Sikh are an important part of the United states. They survive in our arm forces, as officers of the law and as legal professionals. This essay will inform about the most important part of Sikhism, The Five K's.

There is an emphasis on the individual seen all throughout various mediums of today’s society and this egocentric view stems from “the idea of freedom, which is central not only to contemporary politics but also to the humanities, the arts, and literature” (Ghosh 119). The concept of freedom is attractive as it gives power and a sense of control to the individual. With freedom comes a sense of hope and possibilities, but as ecologist Garrett Hardin argues this concept is dangerous in the “complex, crowded, [and] changeable world” as it separates people from one another and their environment (1245). As humans “have become more complexy interrelated, [they] have also become more ‘distant’ from one another and [from the] environmental problems (Ostrom et al. 281). This separation of humans from one another will pose a problem as humans must unite to combat the challenges of the Anthropocene. There must be a change from thinking of freedom in an individualistic sense because “man is dependent upon other organisms both for the immediate means of survival and for maintaining habitat conditions under which survival is possible” (Crosby 1186). Society must embrace a collective freedom where individuals understand “how their actions affect each other” and the environment, and can make independent decisions that will promote the benefit of all as well as themselves (Ostrom et al.

Personally, I think that Sikhs should have their own regiment. The reasons below are why I have acquired this point of view.

The one thing that stands out to me about this course is the external experience, for me this was going to the Sikh temple. I choose to experience the Sikh religious practices because I felt that some of my personal beliefs matched with there’s and wanted to see how they encompassed these beliefs into the community. Particularly the ideal that everyone is accepted, regardless of their spiritual background. I was pleasantly surprised to find this belief to be held for front. I was welcomed in with food, conversation and interest. I found the conversations I had with the Sikhs comforting, although the majority of the conversation revolved around my questions, we got to know each other through conversations outside of religion. Even though this

Environmental issues have been a cause of a lot of debate in the recent past. Governments and nongovernmental organizations have been in constant consultations on how to help protect the environment. Apparently, as a result of man’s many actions, the natural environment is getting torn apart so quickly that the coming generations will not enjoy this kind of environment, unless a