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Hindu Christian Faqir - Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood (Hardcover)
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Hindu Christian Faqir - Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Religion, Culture, and History
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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.
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