Timothy S Dobe

Hindu Christian Faqir

Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood

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Produktbeschreibung

Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian holy men: the Hindu Rama Tirtha and the Christian Sundar Singh.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780199987702
• ISBN-10: 019998770X
• Artikelnr.: 42965676

Autorenporträt

Timothy S. Dobe is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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