Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438497419)

For some four hundred years, Hindus and Christians have been engaged in a public controversy about conversion and missionary proselytization, especially in India and the Hindu diaspora. Hindu Mission, Christian Mission reframes this controversy by shifting attention from "conversion" to a wider, interreligious study of "mission" as a category of thought and practice. Comparative theologian Reid B. Locklin traces the emergence of the nondualist Hindu teaching of Advaita Vedānta as a missionary tradition, from the eighth century to the present day, and draws this tradition into dialogue with contemporary proposals in Christian missiology. As a descriptive study of the Chinmaya Mission, the Ramakrishna Mission, and other leading Advaita mission movements, Hindu Mission, Christian Mission contributes to a growing body of scholarship on transnational Hinduism. As a speculative work of Christian comparative theology, it develops key themes from this engagement for a new, interreligious theology of mission and conversion for the twenty-first century and beyond.

Author: Reid B. Locklin
ISBN-10: 1438497415
ISBN-13: 9781438497419
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2024
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d