ABSTRACT In many parts of the world, Sikhs have come to be perceived as a ‘model' minority – so much so that some have critiqued the Sikh community for taking up positions that are perceived as assimilationist. Such critiques, however, gloss over the sense of precarity, and the litany of hardships, racial discrimination and legal battles in which Sikhs have been forced to be engage in a post-9/11 world. Ultimately, this discrimination is enabled and justified by historical western notions of the incommensurability of the sacred and secular. Engaging with recent critical debates over the on-going meanings of the sacred and the secular, this paper argues that the contemporary moment requires a cosmopolitan religious outlook. Such debates reveal the separation between the public and the private, and between the sacred and the secular, to be ‘zombie categories' that fail to capture contemporary realities. Hence, conceptualizing Sikh identities as precarious, vulnerable ‘model minorities' in a post-Brexit/Trump era allows us to explore a Sikh ethics underpinned by the universal message of SGGS Ji. This is so because such ethics have never been conceptualized as simply being ‘other-worldly’, but rather as precisely grounded in the world that has been entrusted to us.

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minor可危和模范少数群体：“新”全球宗教政治中的锡克教徒身份

摘要在世界许多地方，锡克教徒已被视为“模范”少数派，以至于有些人批评锡克教徒担任被视为同化主义者的职位。然而，这些批评掩盖了pre不安的意识，以及一连串的艰难困苦，种族歧视和法律斗争，锡克教徒被迫卷入9/11后世界。最终，这种歧视被西方关于神圣与世俗不可通约性的历史观念所支持并证明了这一点。围绕最近关于神圣和世俗意义的批判性辩论，本文认为，当代时刻需要一种国际化的宗教观。这些辩论揭示了公共与私人之间，神圣与世俗之间的分离，成为无法捕捉当代现实的“僵尸类别”。因此，在后英国退欧/特朗普时代将锡克教徒身份概念视为pre可危，脆弱的“模范少数民族”，这使我们能够探索以SGGS Ji的普遍信息为基础的锡克教徒伦理。之所以如此，是因为这种道德从未被概念化为仅仅是“超凡脱俗”的事物，而是恰好立足于托付给我们的世界。