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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12620663.
- catalog coverage "United States Religion 1945-".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "American Religion as Commodity Culture -- Civil Society and Immigrants -- New Immigrants as Pariahs -- Religious Options for Urban Immigrants -- Reimagining Religious Pluralism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 197 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231115202".
- catalog isPartOf "American lecturers on the history of religion ; no. 17".
- catalog isPartOf "American lectures on the history of religions (American Academy of Religion) ; new ser., no. 17.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Religion 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "200/.89/95073 21".
- catalog subject "Asians United States Religion.".
- catalog subject "BL2525 .L39 2002".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Religious life United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "American Religion as Commodity Culture -- Civil Society and Immigrants -- New Immigrants as Pariahs -- Religious Options for Urban Immigrants -- Reimagining Religious Pluralism.".
- catalog title "New faiths, old fears : Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life / Bruce B. Lawrence.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".