Contents: 1. A vision of the 21 century (A post-modernist perspective). 2. Sikhism and the 21 century. 3. Re-discovering universal values of Sikhism. 4. Time, reality and religion (The Vedantic and the Sikh conception). 5. Guru Nanak’s vision of pluralistic civilization. 6. Evolutionary dynamics of Sikhism (Correlative processes of nomization and institutionalization). 7. The order of the Khalsa : significance in world history and civilization. 8. Sri Akal Takht (religious and temporal sovereignty in Sikhism). 9. Evolution of Sikh polity. 10. Secularism and religious fundamentalism. 11. Sikhism and social reality in India today. 12. Sikhism and inter-religious dialogue. 13. Sikhism and bhakti movement. 14. Sikhism and Sufism. 15. Towards the second Sikh reformation. 16. Appendix.

"The Doctrine and Dynamics of Sikhism is a pioneering work that studies, holistically, in post-modernist perspective, the doctrinal basis and the endogenous institutional evolution of Sikhism.

"The postulates of Nanakian thought have been well differentiated from both Indian and western philosophical systems.

"Dr. Ahluwalia holds that in contrast to the modern western civilization, based on the category of reason with its reductive-analytic methodology, the post-modern global civilization of the 21 century and the third millennium would, hopeably, be centred on the ontological concept of spirit with its ‘systems-thinking’ methodology. In this context, the author contends that Sikhism, being essentially a religion of spirit, can play a significant role in evolving the ideology of the coming world civilization.