I sikh sono una minoranza religiosa in crescita in Italia, che ha la seconda più grande popolazione sikh in Europa dopo il Regno Unito e il sesto più grande numero di sikh nel mondo. Si stima che in Italia ci fossero (2022) circa 200.000 sikh.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Le sette confessioni più diffuse in Italia del sikhismo sono: Ravidassia (40%), Khalsa (35%), Nirankari (10%), Namdhari (8%) Satnam (5%) e Nanakpanth (4.6%).
- ^ The Continuing Struggle for Religious Freedom by Italy's Sikh Community, su The Wire.«It is estimated that there are around 220,000 Sikh migrants in Italy. The community, however, has been largely invisible to native Italians. The majority of Sikhs are dairy workers, living far from the cities, and settled mainly in the farms of north and central Italy.»
- ^ How the recent Punjabi migration to Spain & Italy is a departure for the diaspora, in The Economic Times, 29 luglio 2018.«The total number of Indians in Italy has now crossed 200,000, making it the largest Indian diaspora in continental Europe and far greater than the 30,000 estimated in Spain. This Indian contingent is mainly made up of Punjabi Jat Sikhs.»
- ^ How Sikhs saved the Italian cheese industry, su Global Indian.«Today, Italy has the largest Sikh population in Europe, only second to the United Kingdom, with an estimated number of 220,000»
- ^ Barbara Bertolani, The Sikhs in Italy: A Growing Heterogeneous and Plural Presence, in Globalizing Belief, Localizing Gods, Brill Publishers, 2013, pp. 75, ISBN 9789004254756.«"According to Gallo (2013), by contrast, the Sikhs would number at least 100,000. Barbara Bertolani estimates in 2013 "My own data gathered within the Sikh community in Italy show Sikh people constituting about 70% of all the Indians present, i.e., at least 84,000 residents"»
- ^ Why the Indian government must help Italian Sikhs, in Hindustan Times.«Up to 150,000 Sikhs now live there, making it the largest Sikh Community in Europe after the one in Britain»
- ^ The Sikhs Spearheading The Italian Parmesan Cheese Industry, in Homegrown.«Despite the estimated 220,000 Sikh immigrants who inhabit the Po Valley, there seems to a whiff of change in the air»
- ^ Sikhs vote in referendum in Rome, in Pakistan Today.«About 200,000 Sikhs live in different cities of Italy.»
- ^ Elena Tebano, Prayer at dawn, zero crime: this is how Sikhs live in Italy, after the sentence of the Cassation, in Corriere Della Sera.«The vegan diet, the cult, the traditions. Customs and symbols of the 150,000 faithful of the religion born in India who now live in the Bel Paese»