Winter 2022 Editorial TeamSpecial Issue on Dr. Rahuldeep Singh Gill As a scholar of Sikh Studies, Dr. Rahuldeep Singh Gill’s pedagogy, speaking, and writing alldrew from a source of deep conviction to bring Gurbaani to life through disciplined actiontowards tangible justice. Completing his worldly journey on December 31st, 2021, Dr. Gill’simpact has been felt across … Read more
Winter 2022 First Paragraph Every translation is an act of interpretation. Rahuldeep Singh Gill’s Drinking from Love’s Cup:Surrender and Sacrifice in the Vars of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla, published by Oxford UniversityPress as part of the American Academy of Religion’s “Religion in Translation” series in 2016,represents a significant turning point in English materials available to students … Read more
Winter 2022 Introduction This paper aims to summarize and evaluate the contributions of Rahuldeep Singh Gill to the fieldof Sikh Studies, and to acquaint new readers with these contributions. In some respects,Rahuldeep Gill occupied a unique position in the field. As I will argue, he was not only anaccomplished, significant scholar of key aspects of … Read more
Winter 2022 First Paragraph The first time I encountered Rahuldeep was at an academic interfaith conference hosted byCalifornia Lutheran University in collaboration with Interfaith America (previously known as theInterfaith Youth Core). He was speaking on a panel focused on energizing college campuses withcurricular and cocurricular programming that fosters interfaith engagement. The only thing Iremember from … Read more
Winter 2022 First Paragraph Questioning the logic of bravery and safety, Rahuldeep Singh Gill asked us to consider danger.The problem with ‘safe spaces,’ Gill writes, is that the logic of safety “implies that participants in‘safe’ space will not be exposed to any level of danger.” And yet there is danger. In the face ofsuch danger, … Read more