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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | American lectures on the history of religions (American Academy of Religion) ;
new ser., no. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231505477 9780231505475 0231115202 9780231115209 0231115210 9780231115216 |