000757261 000__ 04318cam\a2200457\i\4500 000757261 001__ 757261 000757261 005__ 20210515115815.0 000757261 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000757261 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000757261 008__ 150818s2015\\\\nyua\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000757261 020__ $$a9780199346271$$q(electronic book) 000757261 0247_ $$a10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199987696$$2doi 000757261 035__ $$a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001208005 000757261 035__ $$a757261 000757261 040__ $$aStDuBDS$$beng$$cStDuBDS$$erda$$epn 000757261 050_4 $$aBL2007.5$$b.D63 2015eb 000757261 08204 $$a294.50922$$223 000757261 1001_ $$aDobe, Timothy,$$eauthor. 000757261 24510 $$aHindu Christian faqir$$h[electronic resource] :$$bmodern monks, global Christianity, and Indian sainthood /$$cTimothy Dobe. 000757261 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2015. 000757261 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) :$$billustrations. 000757261 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000757261 336__ $$astill image$$2rdacontent 000757261 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000757261 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000757261 4901_ $$aAAR religion, culture, and history 000757261 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000757261 5050_ $$a1. Introduction: Unsettling Saints -- 2. How the Pope came to Punjab: Vernacular Beginnings, Protestant Idols and Ascetic Publics -- 3. Resurrecting the Saints: The Rise of the High Imperial Holy Man -- 4. The Saffron Skin of Rama Tirtha: Dressing for the West, the Spiritual Race and an Advaitin Autonomy -- 5. Sundar Singh and the Oriental Christ of the West -- 6. Vernacular Vedanta: Autohagiographical Fragments of Rama Tirtha's Indo-Persian Diglossic Mysticism -- 7. Frail Soldiers of the Cross: Lesser Known Lives of Sundar Singh -- Conclusion: Losing and Finding Religion. 000757261 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000757261 520__ $$a"In the mid-nineteenth century, the American missionary James Butler predicted that Christian conversion and British law together would eradicate Indian ascetics. His disgust for Hindu holy men (sadhus), whom he called "saints," "yogis," and "filthy fakirs," was largely shared by orientalist scholars and British officials, who likewise imagined these religious elites to be a leading symptom of India's degeneration. Yet within some thirty years of Butler's writing, modern Indian ascetics such as the neo-Vedantin Hindu Swami Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and, paradoxically, the Protestant Christian convert Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) achieved international fame as embodiments of the spiritual superiority of the East over the West. Timothy S. Dobe's fine-grained account of the lives of Sundar Singh and Rama Tirtha offers a window on the surprising reversals and potentials of Indian ascetic "sainthood" in the colonial contact zone. His study develops a new model of Indian holy men that is historicized, religiously pluralistic, and located within the tensions and intersections of ascetic practice and modernity. The first in-depth account of two internationally-recognized modern holy men in the colonially-crucial region of Punjab, Hindu Christian Faqir offers new examples and contexts for thinking through these wider issues. Drawing on unexplored Urdu writings by and about both figures, Dobe argues not only that Hinduism and Protestant Christianity are here intimately linked, but that these links are forged from the stuff of regional Islamic traditions of Sufi holy men (faqir). He also re-conceives Indian sainthood through an in-depth examination of ascetic practice as embodied religion, public performance, and relationship, rather than as a theological, otherworldly, and isolated ideal"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000757261 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015). 000757261 60000 $$aRama Tirtha,$$cSwami,$$d1873-1906. 000757261 60010 $$aSingh, Sundar,$$d1889-1929. 000757261 650_0 $$aReligious leaders$$zIndia$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000757261 650_0 $$aChristianity and other religions$$xHinduism. 000757261 650_0 $$aHinduism$$xRelations$$xChristianity. 000757261 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aDobe, Timotht.$$tHindu Christian faqir.$$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2015$$z9780199987696$$w(DLC) 2014050203 000757261 830_0 $$aReligion, culture, and history series. 000757261 85280 $$bebk$$hOxford Scholarship Online 000757261 85640 $$3Oxford scholarship online$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199987696.001.0001$$zOnline Access 000757261 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:757261$$pGLOBAL_SET 000757261 980__ $$aEBOOK 000757261 980__ $$aBIB 000757261 982__ $$aEbook 000757261 983__ $$aOnline