Hindu Christian Faqir
Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 October 2015
- ISBN 9780199987702
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 150x234x27 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian holy men: the Hindu Rama Tirtha and the Christian Sundar Singh.
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Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian saints from Punjab, the neo-Vedantin Hindu Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and the Christian convert Sundar Singh (1889-1929). Timothy S. Dobe shows that varied asceticisms, personal exemplary models, and material religion exuded their ambivalent and powerful public presence in Protestant metropolitan centers as much as in colonial peripheries. Challenging ideas of the invention of modern Hinduism, the transparent translation of Christianity, and the construction of saints by devotees, this book focuses on the long-standing, shared religious idioms on which these two men creatively drew to appeal to transnational audiences and to pursue religious perfection.
Following both men's usage of Urdu, the book adopts the word "faqir" to examine the vernacular and performative dimensions of Indian holy man traditions, thereby calling special attention to missionary and Orientalist anti-ascetic accounts of the "fukeer" indigenous Islamic traditions and this-worldly religion. Exploring Rama Tirtha and Sundar Singh's global tours in Europe and America, self-conscious sartorial styles, and intimate autobiographical writings, Dobe demonstrates that the vernacular holy man traditions of Punjab provided resources that both men drew on to construct their forms of modern monkhood. The rise of heroic, anti-colonial sannyasis or sadhus of modern Hinduism like Swami Vivekananda is thus repositioned in relation to global Christianity, Sufi, bhakti, and Sikh regional practices, religious boundary-crossing, contestation and conversion.
A comparative and contextualized story of two Punjabi holy men's particular performance of sainthood, Hindu Christian Faqir reveals much about the broad, interactional history of religious modernities.
The tools -- theoretical, linguistic, and cultural -- Dobe employs in making his case are truly remarkable, and the copious endnotes by themselve smay be worth the price of the book. It is a work of profound ascesis, both in the writing and in the reading.
Table of Contents:
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
