| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
AAR religion, culture, and history |
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AAR religion, culture, and history
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| Contents |
1. 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 |
| Summary |
This title compares two colonial Indian saints from Punjab, the neo-Vedantin Hindu Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and the Christian convert Sundar Singh (1889-1929). Challenging ideas of the invention of modern Hinduism, the transparent translation of Christianity, and the construction of saints by devotees, the study focuses on the long-standing, shared religious idioms that both men creatively drew on to appeal to their transnational audiences and to pursue particular and plural models of religious perfection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015) |
| Subject |
Rama Tirtha, Swami, 1873-1906.
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Singh, Sundar, 1889-1929.
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Rama Tirtha, Swami, 1873-1906 |
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Singh, Sundar, 1889-1929 |
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Religious leaders -- India -- History -- 19th century
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Christianity and other religions -- Hinduism.
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Hinduism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Christianity
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Hinduism
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Interfaith relations
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Religious leaders
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199346271 |
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0199346275 |
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