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- Title
A Century of Advaita Mission: Tracing a Lineage and Opening a Conversation.
- Authors
Locklin, Reid B.
- Abstract
Several recent studies have explored questions of mission and missiology in comparative, interreligious perspective. This essay also engages the possibility of an interreligious theology of mission, albeit with a narrow focus on the nondualist Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta. To this end, the author profiles four movements: the Ramakrishna movement, Ramanasramam, the Chinmaya Mission, and Transcendental Meditation. Each of these movements deploys distinctively Advaita concepts and method in a broadly missionary mode, and all aspire to transnational status. Finally, a few concluding reflections are offered on the new possibilities opened for Hindu-Christian theologies of mission in and out of an encounter--not with "Hinduism" or "world religions" in general but with this very particular missionary tradition.
- Subjects
HISTORY of Christian missions; INTERFAITH dialogue; MEDITATION &; psychology; RELIGIOUS movements -- History; HISTORY of philosophy; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 4, p488
- ISSN
0022-0558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ecu.2017.0051