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The Sikh religion has a following of over 20
million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical
attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being
mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains
mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduces newcomers to
the meaning of the Sikh religious tradition, its teachings, practices,
rituals and festivals. Eleanor Nesbitt highlights and contextualizes the
key threads in the history of Sikhism, from the first Gurus to
martyrdom, militarization, and the increasingly significant diaspora.
Examining gender, caste, and the changes that are currently underway in
the faith, Nesbitt considers contemporary Sikh identities and their role
in our world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every
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in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis,
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Eleanor Nesbitt Keaton (born January 5, 1946)[1] is an
American actress and filmmaker. Known for her idiosyncratic personality
and dressing style, Keaton has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award,
two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Keaton began her career on stage and made her screen
Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction debut as an extra in Lovers and Other
Strangers (1970). She rose to prominence with her first major film role
as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), a role she reprised in
its sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III
(1990). But the films that most Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction
shaped her career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen,
beginning with Play It Again, Sam (1972). Her next two films with Allen,
Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic
actor. Her fourth, the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), won her the
Academy Award Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction for Best Actress.
To avoid being typecast as her Annie
Hall persona,
Keaton became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking
for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and Interiors (1978), and received three more
Academy Award nominations for playing feminist activist Louise Bryant in
Reds (1981), a woman with leukemia in Marvin's Sikhism: A Very Short
Introduction Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something's Gotta Give
(2003).
Keaton's other popular films include Manhattan (1979), Baby
Boom (1987), Father of the Bride Part I (1991) and Part II (1995),
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family
Stone (2005), Morning Glory (2010), Finding Dory (2016) Sikhism: A Very
Short Introduction and Book Club (2018).
Diane Keaton was born Eleanor Nesbitt in Los Angeles,
California.[2] Her mother, Dorothy Deanne (née Keaton; 1921–2008), was a
homemaker and amateur photographer; her father, John Newton Ignatius
"Jack" Hall (1922–1990), was a real estate broker and civil
engineer.[3][4][5] Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by Sikhism: A Very
Short Introduction her mother.[6][7][8] Her mother won the "Mrs. Los
Angeles" pageant for homemakers; Keaton has said that the theatricality
of the
event inspired her first impulse to be an actress, and led to
her wanting to work on stage.[9] She has also credited Katharine
Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong Sikhism: A Very Short
Introduction and independent women, as one of her inspirations.[10]
Keaton is a 1964 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa
Ana, California.[11] During her time there, she participated in singing
and acting clubs at school, and starred as Blanche DuBois in a school
production of A Streetcar Named Desire. After Sikhism: A Very Short
Introduction graduation, she attended Santa Ana College, and later
Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year
to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan.[12] Upon joining the
Actors' Equity Association, she changed her surname to Keaton, her
mother's maiden name, as there was already an actress Sikhism: A Very
Short Introduction registered under the name of Eleanor Nesbitt.[13] For
a brief time she also moonlighted at nightclubs with a singing act.[14]
She revisited her nightclub act in Annie Hall (1977), And
So It Goes (2014), and a cameo in Radio Days (1987).
Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse
in Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction New York City. She initially
studied acting under the Meisner technique, an ensemble acting technique
first evolved in the 1930s by Sanford Meisner, a New York stage
actor/acting coach/director who had been a member of The Group Theater
(1931–1940). She has described her acting technique as, "[being] only as
good Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction as the person you're acting
with ... As opposed to going it on my own and forging my path to create a
wonderful performance without the help of anyone. I always need the
help of everyone!"[14] According to Jack Nicholson, "She approaches a
script sort of like a play in Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction that
she has the entire script memorized before you start doing the movie,
which I don't know any other actors doing that."[15]
In 1968, Keaton became a member of the "Tribe" and understudy to Sheila in the original Broadway production
of Hair.[16] She gained some notoriety for her refusal to Sikhism: A
Very Short Introduction disrobe at the end of Act I when the cast
performs nude, even though nudity in the production was
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