{"product_id":"hindu-mission-christian-mission-soundings-in-comparative-theology-1","title":"Hindu Mission, Christian Mission","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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. \u003ci\u003eHindu Mission, Christian Mission\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHindu Mission, Christian Mission\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229688123736,"sku":null,"price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438497402.jpg?v=1777894260","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hindu-mission-christian-mission-soundings-in-comparative-theology-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}