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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
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1054A PAS UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L3G1
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Phone: 519-888 4567 X 33565
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India
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University of Waterloo, BA Harvard University, MTS University of British Columbia, PhD
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Ph.D Thesis, "Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity."
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Women in Sikhism Women in the World Religions Sex and the World Religions Eastern Religions East Comes West, West Turns East
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BOOKS AUTHORED: Doris R. Jakobsh (2003, 2005) Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity, Delhi, Oxford University Press. Doris R. Jakobsh (2011) Sikhism, Dimensions of Asian Spirituality Series. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. BOOKS EDITED: Doris R. Jakobsh, ed. (2010) Sikhism and Women. History, Texts and Experience. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Doris R. Jakobsh, ed. (2012) World Religions - Canadian Perspectives: Western Traditions, Toronto: Nelson Publishers. Doris R. Jakobsh, ed. (2013) World Religions – Canadian Perspectives: Eastern Traditions, Toronto: Nelson Publishers. PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS: Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Offline politics/online shaming: honour codes, modes of resistance and responses to Sikh gurdwara politics,” Diaspora. Assessing the Complexities of South Asian Migration. Special Edition. Doris R. Jakobsh (2008) “3HO/Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere: The “Forgotten” New Religious Movement?” Religion Compass, 2:1. Doris R. Jakobsh (2006) “Understanding Religion and Cyberspace: What have we learned, what lies ahead?” Religious Studies Review, 32:4. Doris R. Jakobsh (2006) “Sikhism, Interfaith Dialogue and Women: Transformation and Identity,” Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May). Doris R. Jakobsh (2005) “Sikh Ritual Identity: Who Speaks for Sikh Women,” Chakra – tidskrift för indiska religioner,, Theme, ‘Modern Media and Texts in Indian Religions’, No. 1, Vol. 3. Doris R. Jakobsh (2004) “Constructing Sikh Identities: Authorities, Virtual and Imagined,” International Journal of Punjab Studies No. 1 and 2, Vol. 10 (January), pp. 127-142. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Gender in Sikh Traditions,” Oxford Handbook on Sikh Studies, Pashaura Singh and Louis Fenech, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press. Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “The Sikhs in Canada: Culture, Religion and Radicalization,” Religion, Radicalization and Securitization, Paul Bramadat and Lorne Dawson, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Sikhism and Women,” Women and Religious Traditions, 3nd edition (re-written). Leona M. Anderson and Pamela Dickey Young, eds. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 226 - 255. Doris R. Jakobsh (2012) “’Sikhizing the Sikhs’: The role of ‘new media’ in historical and contemporary identity construction within global Sikhism,” Sikhs Across Borders. Transnational Practices of European Sikhs, Knut Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, eds. London, UK: Continuum, 141-164. Doris R. Jakobsh (2011), “Studying the Sikhs: Thirty years later...Where have come, where are we going”? Pashaura Singh, ed., Sikhism in its Global Context. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 62-84. Doris R. Jakobsh and Eleanor Nesbitt, (2010), “Sikhism and Women. Contextualizing the Issues,” Sikhism and Women. History, Texts and Experience, Doris R. Jakobsh, ed. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-34. Doris R. Jakobsh (2010) ‘Sikhism and Women,” Women and Religious Traditions, 2nd edition. Leona M. Anderson and Pamela Dickey Young, eds. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 226 - 255. Doris R. Jakobsh (2004) “Sikh Rituals,” in Frank Salamone, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religious Rites, Rituals and Festivals, Routledge. Doris R. Jakobsh (2004) “Barriers to Women’s Leadership,” in G. R. Goethals, G. Sorenson & J.M. Burns, eds. Encyclopaedia of Leadership, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 76-80. Doris R. Jakobsh (2004) “What’s in a Name? Circumscribing Sikh Female Nomenclature,” Pashaura Singh, N.G. Barrier, eds. Sikhism and History, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 176-193. Doris R. Jakobsh (2000) “The Construction of Gender in History and Religion: The Sikh Case,” in Mandakranta Bose, ed., Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval and modern India. New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 270-286. Doris R. Jakobsh (1999) “Conversion in the Sikh Tradition,” in M. Darrol Bryant and Christopher Lamb, eds., Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies. London, Cassell Publishers, pp. 166-174. Doris R. Jakobsh (1996) “Gender Issues in Sikh Studies: Hermeneutics of Affirmation or Hermeneutics of Suspicion?” in Pashaura Singh and N. Gerald Barrier, eds., The Transmission of Sikh Heritage in the Diaspora. New Delhi, Manohar, pp. 45-72. REFEREED WWW JOURNALS AND ENTRIES: Doris R. Jakobsh (2005) “Bhakti,” Women in World History Project, Centre for History and New Media, George Mason University, http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/. Doris R. Jakobsh (2006) “Authority in the Virtual Sangat: Sikhism, Ritual and Identity in the Twenty-First Century,” Online. Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, (2:1), pp. 24-40, http://online.uni-hd.de/.
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