Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology - Couverture souple

Locklin, Reid B.

 
9781438497419: Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1438497415 ISBN 13 : 9781438497419
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024

Synopsis

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438497415
ISBN 13 
9781438497419
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
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Personne responsable
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