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Dr. Eboo Patel awarded 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize

May 11, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Interfaith activist Dr. Eboo Patel, from Chicago, Illinois, and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, has been awarded the 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize: Dr. Eboo Patel is a man of peace in a time of violence. At a time when a Muslim name is automatically equated with terrorism and Islam itself is misunderstood, this young Muslim Indian-American shows the power of interfaith dialogue. This month he was honoured in New York with the 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, established […]

Categories: Interfaith, News Bits • Tags: Chicago, Eboo Patel, Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, Hofstra University, Interfaith Youth Core, Ishar Singh Bindra, Kuljit Kaur Bindra, New York

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Religiosity and perception of well-being

February 27, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

An interesting survey done by Gallup-Healthways suggests that a higher sense of well-being is correlated with how religious a person is: An analysis of more than 676,000 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index interviews conducted in 2011 and 2010 finds that Americans who are the most religious have the highest levels of wellbeing. The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables. The study theorizes that this may be because of the habits and behaviors that […]

Categories: Interfaith, Reports/Studies • Tags: Gallup, Religiosity, United States

The Pluralism Project profiles Sikhism and Sikh musical tradition

February 8, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Diana Ecks, of Harvard University’s Pluralism Project (dedicated to the study of religious diversity in the United States) recently profiled Sikhism and gurmat sangeet in an interview with Sarbpreet Singh of the Gurmat Sangeet Project: The Gurmat Sangeet Project is a grass-roots level effort dedicated to the preservation and propagation of the ancient musical tradition known as Gurmat Sangeet. The Gurmat Sangeet Project is dedicated to disseminating high quality recordings and teaching materials for free. Gurmat sangeet is the musical […]

Categories: Art, Interfaith, Profiles • Tags: Gurmat Sangeet, Gurmat Sangeet Project, Harvard University, Sarbpreet Singh, The Pluralism Project

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Experiencing Guru Nanak

December 20, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Last week, I sat on a panel discussion at an interfaith seminary in Berkeley, California, in front of a class of chaplaincy students where we discussed interfaith work at the ground level and the implications of that work. I participated on this panel on behalf of the Sikh Coalition as a representative of the Sikh faith. Four other panel members represented various Christian traditions and interfaith organizations. I had gone to this event with the hopes to educate the class […]

Categories: Interfaith, Reflections • Tags: Guru Nanak, interfaith, Sikh Coalition

A response and retort to “Jain Dharma Goes Beyond Religion” on the Huffington Post

November 29, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Pankaj Jain, on the Huffington Post, wrote recently about the difference between the faiths he categorizes as the “dharma” traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism) and the Abrahamic “religions” – particularly Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Unfortunately, the way in which Jain compares the two categories is problematic, and in the process, the article misrepresents Sikhism. For a discussion on what “dharma” means in the Sikh context, see a recent post put up for discussion at sikhchic.com. Below, I will extract […]

Categories: Interfaith, Sikhism • Tags: Buddhism, Christianity, Huffington Post, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Pankaj Jain, Sikh, Sikhism

Andrew Bowen’s last day as a Sikh

October 6, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

So here we are at the end. I’m told that, while I will not go on looking like a Sikh, a Sikh is one who searches for truth and meditates of the divine in all. In reality then, even though today I shave the lion’s mane (unshorn hair) of the Kesh I wore so proudly, I am still one of them in spirit. In fact, that description sounds a lot like many of us, doesn’t it? We are so much […]

Categories: Interfaith, Reflections, Sikhism • Tags: Andrew Bowen, Project Conversion 12, Religion and Spirituality

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UPDATE: Synagogue offers worship space for homeless Plainview, NY Sikh congregation

October 5, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

I was contacted by Joe Dowd, who wrote the article in the Plainview Patch about the closing of the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh Center due to several municipal code violations in Plainview, New York . He advised me of an interesting update to the situation faced by that Sikh community now that their Gurdwara has been forced to close: In a gift coincidentally timed to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, Temple Beth Elohim has offered its social hall for use by the members of the Guru Gobind […]

Categories: Interfaith, News Bits • Tags: Gurdwara, Guru Gobind Singh Sikh Center, Joe Dowd, New York, Old Bethpage, Plainview, Plainview Patch, Rabbi Michael Churgel, Temple Beth Elohim

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Religion and US Politics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

August 4, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Jasmeet Sidhu writes a piece on The Huffington Post contrasting between Canada and the United States the roles of faith groups with government: It seems to me, that though this country has its fair share of heated debates around religion (the ground zero mosque controversy comes to find [sic]), there are also seems to be a yearning and a willingness by policy makers, community groups and other stakeholders to publicly engage and bring into the fold Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh […]

Categories: Interfaith, Politics • Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Huffington Post, Islamophobia, Jasmeet Sidhu, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry

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Questioning multi-culturalism: Ditching the car because of a flat tire

July 7, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

An Op-Ed piece by Kenan Malik that was published in the New York Times proposes that multi-culturalism, as it implemented in England, is a failure: The real question is not how people like Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the 7/7 bombers, came to be radicalized, but why so many young men, who by all accounts are intelligent, articulate and integrated, come to find this violent, reactionary ideology so attractive. To answer it, we need to look not at extremist […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Interfaith • Tags: 7/7, England, Kenan Malik, London, Multiculturalism, New York Times

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Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

Category Archives: Interfaith

Dr. Eboo Patel awarded 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize

Religiosity and perception of well-being

The Pluralism Project profiles Sikhism and Sikh musical tradition

Experiencing Guru Nanak

A response and retort to “Jain Dharma Goes Beyond Religion” on the Huffington Post

Andrew Bowen’s last day as a Sikh

UPDATE: Synagogue offers worship space for homeless Plainview, NY Sikh congregation

Religion and US Politics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Questioning multi-culturalism: Ditching the car because of a flat tire