New faiths, old fears : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life /
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 o...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2002.
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| סדרה: | American lectures on the history of religions (American Academy of Religion) ;
new ser., no. 17. |
| גישה מקוונת: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74645 |
תוכן הענינים:
- 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