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Today's Picture: Sikh Festival in India

November 2, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

(AP Photo / Prabhjot Gill)

Sikh devotees throng the Golden Temple, the religion's holiest shrine, on Monday to mark the anniversary of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak. The temple is in Amritsar, India. Guru Nanak was born a Hindu in the 15th century, but his followers rejected Hinduism's ritualism and its views of caste.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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