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Making the Scripture a Person: Re-inventing Death Rituals of Guru Granth Sahib in Sikhism
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Transnational Sikh Preachers: Local Training and Global Aspiration of Kathavacaks in Punjab
No full textMiniature Qur’ans in the First World War: Religious Comforts for Indian Muslim Soldiers
No full textDuring the First World War Muslim soldiers from India made up a significant part of the British forces. Attempts to satisfy the soldiers' religious needs became a British strategy to maintain military discipline among the soldiers in Europe and to avoid public unease and discontent in colonial India. Based on archival material, this article examines how the British tried to identify the religious needs of the Indian soldiers and how letters written by Muslim soldiers emphasized the importance of the Qur'an. The article further explores how the Indian Soldiers' Fund became an important charity which procured and distributed miniature copies of the Qur'an and how prominent persons in India and Europe donated scriptures to Muslim soldiers. Although the soldiers' uses of the miniature scriptures remain uncertain, the books were given iconic functions to represent religion and identities in a time when the British national honour was threatened
A Simple Derivation of the Landauer Bound
Full text linkA proof is given, simpler than the one found in my BJPS paper (Myrvold 2024), of a special case of the Landauer bound. The conceptual basis of this proof is the same as that of the more general proof found in that paper; the current proof is offered as easier to follow
A Simple Derivation of the Landauer Bound
Full text linkA proof is given, simpler than the one found in my BJPS paper (Myrvold 2024), of a special case of the Landauer bound. The conceptual basis of this proof is the same as that of the more general proof found in that paper; the current proof is offered as easier to follow
Ontology of Relativistic Collapse Theories
Full text linkIf some sort of dynamical collapse theory is correct, what might the world be like? Can a theory of that sort be a quantum state monist theory, or must such theories supplement the quantum state ontology with additional beables? In a previous work (Myrvold 2018), I defended quantum state monism, with a distributional ontology along the lines advocated by Philip Pearle. In this chapter the account is extended to collapse theories in relativistic spacetimes
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