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New faiths, old fears [electronic resource] : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life / Bruce B. Lawrence.

By: Series: American lectures on the history of religions (American Academy of Religion) ; new ser., no. 17.Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231505477
  • 9780231505475
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New faiths, old fears.DDC classification:
  • 200/.89/95073 21
LOC classification:
  • BL2525 .L39 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
""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""
Summary: <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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.

Print version record.

""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""

<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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