Hindu Mission Christian Mission

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>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. <i>Hindu Mission Christian Mission</i> 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 <i>Hindu Mission Christian Mission</i> 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.</p>