A Most Uncommon Task: Arvind Sharma and the Construction of Hindu Missiology.
In this essay, I offer a critical, appreciative assessment of Arvind Sharma's vision of missionary Hinduism, as developed in his 2011 monograph Hinduism as a Missionary Religion and related works in ethics, comparative method, and philosophy of religion. As a historian, Sharma has been criticized fo...
| Published in: | International Journal of Hindu Studies Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 63 - 90 |
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