A Century of Advaita Mission: Tracing a Lineage and Opening a Conversation
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 aut...
| Published in: | Journal of ecumenical studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2017
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Journal of ecumenical studies
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history RJ Mission; missiology |
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Comparative Theology
B Advaita Vedanta B Chinmaya Mission B Ramana Maharshi B Maharishi Mahesh Yogi B Hinduism B Ramakrishna Mission B Mission B Transcendental Meditation B Swami Vivekananda B Missiology |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2017.0051 |