by
Lawrence, Bruce B.
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200.8995073 21
Publication Date
2002
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<Div> 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. </div>
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Gilmartin, David, 1949-
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297.28450954 22
Publication Date
2000
Summary
''[Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. ... The volume breaks free from the polemics of present-day politics and historicist distortions that have seeped into most standard texts.
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