New faiths, old fears : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life / Bruce B. Lawrence.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- computer
- online resource
- 0231505477
- 9780231505475
- United States -- Religion -- 1945-
- Asians -- United States -- Religion
- Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Asians -- United States -- Religion
- Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Religion -- 1945-
- RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
- RELIGION -- Islam -- History
- Asians -- Religion
- Immigrants -- Religious life
- Religion
- United States
- Since 1900
- 200/.89/95073 21
- BL2525 .L39 2002eb
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> 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. </div>
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