Family
1. How do families with religious commitment practice their faith?
2. How does the community of faith practice its faith?
3. In what ways do these link and how does this impact on the wider local community?
4. What is the impact of belonging to a family of faith and a faith community?
5. What is the historical dimension of family & community faith?
6. Effects of belonging to a community of faith in a contemporary society.
Sikh parents encourage their children to take part in the four rites of passageCeremonies which celebrate transitions e.g. birth, adolescence, marriage and death. (see Life and death)They will also perform the Nit nem or daily prayersExtempore and set conversations with God and attend the gurdwaraThe Sikh place of worship literally meaning the Guru's door frequently.
Practice may involve a range of daily, weekly and monthly programmes in the local gurdwara and, sometimes, across gurdwaras.
The impact on the community occurs during processions marking important dates in the Sikh calendar. Free food and drink is made available to non-Sikhs as well as Sikhs along the route of the procession. The langarThe kitchen and dining hall within the Sikh Gurdwara is open for free food and serves an important community need for certain people as well as Sikhs.
Amongst Sikhs there is a sense of optimism and DivineThat which is holy support for the future and people develop a sense of themselves through a personal examination of the past.
The Gurus provide the exemplars for living a good life.
Sikhs regard their private beliefs as personal and do not seek to convert other people. The challenge is to live an authentic life and that challenge has been unchanged from the past to the present and will remain unchanged in the future.
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