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New Faiths, Old Fears : Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (American Lectures on the History of Religions)
New Faiths Old Fears Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life - American Lectures on the History of Religions Author:Bruce B. Lawrence 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 Am... more »erican civil society and by the deep-rooted American ambivalence toward foreign traditions.« less