{"title":"A Most Uncommon Task: Arvind Sharma and the Construction of Hindu Missiology","authors":"Reid B. Locklin","doi":"10.1007/s11407-024-09370-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-024-09370-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I offer a critical, appreciative assessment of Arvind Sharma’s vision of missionary Hinduism, as developed in his 2011 monograph <i>Hinduism as a Missionary Religion</i> and related works in ethics, comparative method, and philosophy of religion. As a historian, Sharma has been criticized for his selective focus and his tendency to de-emphasize the diversity and mutual rivalries of Hindu traditions, especially in the classical and medieval periods. As a self-consciously constructive, even confessional thinker, however, he also develops a coherent theology of mission, grounded in his own distinctive form of universalist Advaita Vedānta. In this sense, I argue, Sharma might be regarded as a founding figure in the emergence of missiology as a vital category of contemporary Hindu thought, as well as a rich new field for interreligious exchange.</p>","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139758444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gandhi and the Jews, the Jews and Gandhi: An Overall Perspective","authors":"Shimon Lev","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09348-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09348-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"50 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135274236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gandhi the Artist","authors":"Daniel Raveh","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09344-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09344-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"280 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136115204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebb Binyamin’s Gandhi: India, Islam, and the Question of Palestine","authors":"Avi-ram Tzoreff","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09347-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09347-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136209906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality versus Levinas’s Philosophy","authors":"Hanoch Ben Pazi","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09346-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09346-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136211642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09343-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09343-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48710134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother of Compassion, Mother of Wrath: Reflections of the Hindu Goddess in Mirrored Māhātmyas","authors":"Raj Balkaran, Noor van Brussel","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09342-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09342-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43603626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voices from the Margins: Early Modern Nāth Yogī Teachings for Muslim Publics","authors":"Christine Marrewa-Karwoski","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09341-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09341-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45288418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Early Sufi Romance: The Case of Cāndāyan","authors":"Heidi Pauwels","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09340-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09340-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"253 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47846791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Other’s Other: Being Non-Hindu in Colonial India","authors":"Herman Tull","doi":"10.1007/s11407-023-09338-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-023-09338-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45761908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}