Hindu Christian Faqir

Hindu Christian Faqir

Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood

Dobe, Timothy S. (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Grinnell College)

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2015

384

Mole

Inglês

9780199987702

15 a 20 dias

Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian holy men: the Hindu Rama Tirtha and the Christian Sundar Singh.
Acknowledgements ; Note on Diacritical Marks ; List of Images ; Chapter 1 - Introduction: Unsettling Saints ; Chapter 2 - How the Pope came to Punjab: Vernacular Beginnings, Protestant Idols and Ascetic Publics ; Chapter 3 - Resurrecting the Saints: The Rise of the High Imperial Holy Man ; Chapter 4 - The Saffron Skin of Rama Tirtha: Dressing for the West, the Spiritual Race and an Advaitin Autonomy ; Chapter 5 - Sundar Singh and the Oriental Christ of the West ; Chapter 6 - Rama Tirtha's Vernacular Vedanta: Autohagiographical Fragments of Rama's Indo-Persian Mysticism ; Chapter 7 - Frail Soldiers of the Cross: Lesser Known Lives of Sundar Singh ; Conclusion - Losing and Finding Religion ; Bibliography ; Index
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