{"product_id":"hindu-mission-christian-mission-soundings-in-comparative-theology-9781438497402","title":"Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology","description":"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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReid B. Locklin\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Christianity and Culture at the University of Toronto. He has written, edited, and coedited several books, including \u003ci\u003eVernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on \"Being Catholic the Tamil Way\"\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50489180389650,"sku":"9781438497402","price":103.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20bb4213-2e90-42e6-b9d9-832c9352ad53.jpg?v=1737212541","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hindu-mission-christian-mission-soundings-in-comparative-theology-9781438497402","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}