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200 1. $a Hindu Christian faqir $b Texte imprimé $e modern monks, global Christianity, and Indian sainthood $f Timothy S. Dobe
210 .. $a New York (N.Y.) $c Oxford university press $d cop. 2015
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XI-363 p.) $c illustrations $d 24 cm
225 |. $a Religion, culture, and history
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. [325]-346. Index
327 1. $a 1. Introduction: Unsettling Saints ; 2. How the Pope came to Punjab: Vernacular
Beginnings, Protestant Idols and Ascetic Publics ; 3. Resurrecting the Saints: The
Rise of the High Imperial Holy Man ; 4. The Saffron Skin of Rama Tirtha: Dressing
for the West, the Spiritual Race and an Advaitin Autonomy ; 5. Sundar Singh and the
Oriental Christ of the West ; 6. Vernacular Vedanta: Autohagiographical Fragments
of Rama Tirtha's Indo-Persian Diglossic Mysticism ; 7. Frail Soldiers of the Cross:
Lesser Known Lives of Sundar Singh ; Conclusion: Losing and Finding Religion.
330 .. $a "In the mid-nineteenth century, the American missionary James Butler predicted that
Christian conversion and British law together would eradicate Indian ascetics. His
disgust for Hindu holy men (sadhus), whom he called "saints," "yogis," and "filthy
fakirs," was largely shared by orientalist scholars and British officials, who likewise
imagined these religious elites to be a leading symptom of India's degeneration. Yet
within some thirty years of Butler's writing, modern Indian ascetics such as the neo-Vedantin
Hindu Swami Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and, paradoxically, the Protestant Christian convert
Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) achieved international fame as embodiments of the spiritual
superiority of the East over the West. Timothy S. Dobe's fine-grained account of the
lives of Sundar Singh and Rama Tirtha offers a window on the surprising reversals
and potentials of Indian ascetic "sainthood" in the colonial contact zone. His study
develops a new model of Indian holy men that is historicized, religiously pluralistic,
and located within the tensions and intersections of ascetic practice and modernity.
The first in-depth account of two internationally-recognized modern holy men in the
colonially-crucial region of Punjab, Hindu Christian Faqir offers new examples and
contexts for thinking through these wider issues. Drawing on unexplored Urdu writings
by and about both figures, Dobe argues not only that Hinduism and Protestant Christianity
are here intimately linked, but that these links are forged from the stuff of regional
Islamic traditions of Sufi holy men (faqir). He also re-conceives Indian sainthood
through an in-depth examination of ascetic practice as embodied religion, public performance,
and relationship, rather than as a theological, otherworldly, and isolated ideal"
; "This book compares two colonial Indian holy men, the Hindu Rama Tirtha and the
Christian Sundar Singh. Challenging ideas about modern Hinduism, indigenous Christianity,
and sainthood, the study focuses on the vernacular, ascetic idioms that both men creatively
drew on to appeal to transnational audiences and pursue religious perfection"
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