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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Reid B Locklin, Reid B. Locklin, Locklin Reid B.
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2024
• EAN: 9781438497419
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9741-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: SUNY series in Religious Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; 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