{"product_id":"hindu-mission-christian-mission-9781438497402","title":"Hindu Mission Christian Mission","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 Vedanta.\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 Vedanta 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":51039819071831,"sku":"9781438497402","price":65.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hindu-mission-christian-mission-9781438497402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}