Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
View a 2001 exhibit from the University of California, Berkeley’s library of historical photographs of the south Asians, including Sikhs, in California.
View a 2001 exhibit from the University of California, Berkeley’s library of historical photographs of the south Asians, including Sikhs, in California.
Harvard University’s Pluralism Project maintains an archive of newspaper and magazine articles published between 1997 and 2011 on different faiths. For recent articles, visit the Religious Diversity News Feed service.
See Beliefnet.com’s Sikhism page for an explanation of beliefs.
A July 29, 2004, New York Times story about two Sikhs who won the right to wear turbans in jobs as New York City traffic enforcement agents.
The Becket Fund is a public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., that works to protect the free expression of all religious traditions. For interviews, contact Ryan Colby.
Paul David Numrich is a professor of world religions and interreligious relations at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio . He was also the co-director of the Religion, Immigration and Civil Society in Chicago Project. He is co-author of Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs in America. He is the author of “Marriage, Family and Health in Selected World Religions: Different […]
Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann is a professor of global and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is the director of the Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies. He has written widely about Sikhism and other Eastern religions in the United States.
Armadeep Singh is co-founder of the Sikh Coalition, an amalgam of groups representing the nation’s Sikhs. The group was founded after the attacks of Sept. 11 when Sikhs became objects of suspicion at airports and elsewhere.
SikhWomen.com was an advocacy organization for women’s equality in the Sikh community. The site was last updated in 2006 but still contains information journalists might find useful.