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04349aam a2200433 i 4500 001 DC406B1C6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150706s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014050203 020 $a 019998770X (paperback) 020 $a 9780199987702 (paperback) 020 $a 0199987696 (hardback) 020 $a 9780199987696 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)908373946 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d IUL $d YUS $d COO $d PUL $d CHVBK $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a BL2007.5 D63 2015 100 1 $a Dobe, Timothy, $e author. 245 10 $a Hindu Christian faqir : $b modern monks, global Christianity, and Indian sainthood / $c Timothy S. Dobe. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xi, 363 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Religion, culture, and history 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index. 505 0 $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. 650 0 $a Religious leaders $z India $x History $y 19th century. 600 00 $a Rama Tirtha, $c Swami, $d 1873-1906. 600 10 $a Singh, Sundar, $d 1889-1929. 650 0 $a Christianity and other religions $x Hinduism. 650 0 $a Hinduism $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 830 0 $a Religion, culture, and history series. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021402.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC406B1C6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search