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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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