New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (American Lectures on the History of Religions)

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Bruce Lawrence

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Immigrants, Islam, Religion, Politics & State, History, Church & State, Sociology, Politics & Social Sciences, United States, Anthropology

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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. 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. - from Amzon

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