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New faiths, old fears : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life
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New faiths, old fears : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life

Author: Bruce B Lawrence
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Series: American lectures on the history of religions (American Academy of Religion), new ser., no. 17.
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"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. In this remarkable book, a leading scholar of religion asks how these new faiths have changed or have been changed by the pluralist face of American civil society. How have these new  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bruce B Lawrence
ISBN: 0231115202 9780231115209
OCLC Number: 50022714
Description: xvi, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: American Religion as Commodity Culture --
Civil Society and Immigrants --
New Immigrants as Pariahs --
Religious Options for Urban Immigrants --
Reimagining Religious Pluralism.
Series Title: American lectures on the history of religions (American Academy of Religion), new ser., no. 17.
Responsibility: Bruce B. Lawrence.
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schema:reviewBody""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. In this remarkable book, a leading scholar of religion asks how these new faiths have changed or have been changed by the pluralist face of American civil society. How have these new religious minorities been affected by the deep-rooted American ambivalence toward foreign traditions?" "Bruce Lawrence casts a comparativist eye on the American religious scene and explores the ways in which various groups of Asian immigrants have, and sometimes have not, been integrated into the American polity. In the process, he offers several important correctives. Too often, Lawrence argues, profiles of Asian American experience focus exclusively on immigrants from East Asia, to the exclusion of South Asian and West Asian voices. New Faiths, Old Fears seeks to make all Asians equally important and to break free of traditional geographic markers, most reflecting nineteenth-century imperial values, that artificially divide the people of the "Middle East" from the rest of Asia, with whom they share certain religious and cultural ties. Iranian Americans, in particular, emerge as a vital bridge group whose experience tells us much about how Asians of many different backgrounds have found their way in their new nation."--BOOK JACKET."
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