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The Adi Granth (Punjabi: "First Book"), the sacred scripture of Sikhism, is ... known as Granth, or Granth Sahib ("The Granth Personified"). It is a collection of nearly 6,000 hymns of the Sikh Gurus and various early and medieval saints of different religions and castes.
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The Granth is the central text of Sikhism, a religion that emerged in the Punjab region of India in the 15th Century. Sikhism is a unique faith which has aspects of Islam: monotheism and iconoclasm, and Hinduism: reincarnation, karma and nirvana. However Sikhism is distinct from Hinduism and Islam. The Sikh Gurus (teachers), contemporaries of Luther and Calvin, were reformers who rejected the caste system and much of the apparatus of Hindu ritual and legalism. They promoted religious tolerance and the equality of women. The founding Guru, Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, (1469-1538), is noted for the saying "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim."
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Sikhism , religion centered in the Indian state of Punjab, numbering worldwide some 19 million. Some 300,000 Sikhs live in Britain, and there are smaller communities in North America, Australia, and Singapore. By the late 1990s Sikhism was the world's fifth largest faith and had some 175,000 U.S. adherents and 225,000 in Canada. Sikhism is heterodox, combining the teachings of Bhakti Hinduism and Islamic Sufism.
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Sikhism shares beliefs with both Islam (e.g. monotheism) and Hinduism (e.g. Bhakti). Sikhism should not... be regarded simply as two older religions blended into one, but rather as a genuinely new religion. Its followers believe it to have been authenticated by a new divine revelation.
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Sikhism, the youngest among world religions, arose over 500 years ago in (sub-continental) India. It surged up across the horizon as a great revolutionary force that changed the very course of Indian history. With its values of universalism, liberalism, humanism and pluralism, preached and propagated in the medieval age, Sikh religion introduced new elements which later flowered out in modern world civilization.
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The word "Sikhism" derives from "Sikh," which means a strong and able disciple. There are about 16 million Sikhs worldwide, making Sikhism the 5th or 6th largest religion in the world, on a par with Judaism. The majority of Sikhs live in India, primarily in the state of Punjab. Large populations of Sikhs can ... be found in the UK, Canada, and the United States.
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