Arvind-pal Singh Mandair

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair is a Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He holds the Tara Singh and Balwant Kaur Chattha and Gurbax Singh and Kirpal Kaur Brar Sikh Studies Endowed Professorship in Sikh Studies. He holds doctoral degrees in the fields of Chemistry and Philosophy/Religion. Though specializing in Sikh and South Asian studies, his research and teaching interests cut across multiple fields including World Philosophies, continental philosophy, postcolonial theory, translation studies, history and theory of religions, political theory and more recently spirituality and consciousness studies. His books publications include: Philosophical Reflections on Sabad: Event, Resonance, Revelation (Marquette University Press: 2023); Violence and the Sikhs, Cambridge University Press (2022); Sikh Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic Press, (forthcoming 2022); Geophilosophical Encounters: Decolonial Praxis, Diasporic Logics & Sikh Thought (forthcoming 2022). Earlier books include Religion and the Specter of the West (Columbia University Press, 2009); Sikhism: A Guide For the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2013); Secularism and Religion-Making (with Markus Dressler, Oxford 2011); Teachings of the Sikh Gurus (with Christopher Shackle, Routledge 2005). Arvind-Pal is the founding editor of the Routledge journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory and edits two new book series: Routledge Critical Sikh Studies and Routledge Studies in Translation and Religion. Details about his work can be found on his website.