Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simrat Jeet Singh

He’s talked a lot in public about how being a scholar, looking and presenting the way he does, means that his life - in and out of the academic arena - has often had folks demanding he be the Sikh voice, the Brown voice, the Non-Christian voice.ĭr. He recently wrote, in “ Why universities-and the rest of us-need religious studies” that as a turban-wearing, beard-having brown man, knowing about religion is a life or death issue for him and people who look like him. Why did we want him on the pod? Well, he is a prolific public scholar who teaches us, all the time, about how certain people with certain bodies are not afforded the choice to be public scholars or not.

His next book is about Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhi. Gomes Memorial honoree from Harvard Divinity School, NYU’s first Sikh chaplain, serves on too many advisory boards to mention, he hosts the Spirited Podcast and the “Becoming Less Racist” web series, and the author of the must-read, best-selling children’s book Fauja Singh Keeps Going. He was a Luce/ ACLS Fellow for Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs and a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, the 2018 Peter J.

Simran Jeet Singh is a renown educator, writer, and activist, who is perhaps best known for his public scholarship about religion, racism, and justice.

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Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simrat Jeet Singh