TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawrence,Bruce B.
TI  - New faiths, old fears: Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life 
T2  - American lecturers on the history of religion
SN  - 0231505477
AV  - BL2525 .L39 2002eb
U1  - 200/.89/95073 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Asians
KW  - United States
KW  - Religion
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Religious life
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Islam
KW  - fast
KW  - Asians -- United States -- Religion
KW  - Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - United States -- Religion -- 1945-
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. American Religion as Commodity Culture""; ""2. Civil Society and Immigrants""; ""3. New Immigrants as Pariahs""; ""4. Religious Options for Urban Immigrants""; ""5. Reimagining Religious Pluralism""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""
N2  - <Div><P>As a result of immigration from Asia in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, the fastest-growing religions in America -- faster than all Christian groups combined -- are Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Now a leading scholar asks how these new faiths have changed or have been changed by the pluralist face of American civil society and by the deep-rooted American ambivalence toward foreign traditions.</P></div>
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