Hindu Mission, Christian Mission - Soundings in Comparative Theology

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 Ved¿nta 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Reid B. Locklin is Associate Professor of Christianity and Culture at the University of Toronto. He has written, edited, and coedited several books, including Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on "Being Catholic the Tamil Way", also published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Reid B Locklin, Reid B. Locklin, Locklin Reid B.
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.11.2024
• EAN: 9781438497419
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9741-9
• Seiten: 432
• Serie: SUNY series in Religious Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / History, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, RELIGION / Hinduism / Theology, History of Religion, Hinduism, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities