TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma,Arvind
TI  - Hinduism as a missionary religion /Arvind Sharma
SN  - 9781438432137
AV  - BL1243 .H563 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Missions
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Antiquity and Continuity of the Belief that Hinduism Is Not a Missionary Religion --; Neo-Hindu Conviction that Hinduism Is a Non-Missionary Religion --; Hinduism as a Missionary Religion: The Evidence from Vedic India --; Hinduism as a Missionary Religion: The Evidence from Classical India --; Hinduism as a Missionary Religion: The Evidence from Medieval India --; Hinduism as a Missionary Religion: The Evidence from Modern India; 2; b
N2  - Is Hinduism a missionary religion? Merely posing this question is a novel and provocative act. Popular and scholarly perception, both ancient and modern, puts Hinduism in the non-missionary category. In this intriguing book, Arvind Sharma reopens the question. Examining the historical evidence from the major Hindu eras, the Vedic, classical, medieval, and modern periods, Sharma's investigation challenges the categories used in current scholarly discourse and finds them inadequate, emphasizing the need to distinguish between a missionary religion and a proselytizing one. A distinction rarely made, it is nevertheless an illuminating and fruitful one that resonates with insights from the comparative study of religion. Ultimately concluding that Hinduism is a missionary religion, but not a proselytizing one, Sharma's work provides us with insights both about Hinduism and about religion in general. --Book Jacket
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