| Author/Contributor(s): | Lawrence, Bruce |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Date: | 10/20/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.