Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. American Religion as Commodity Culture -- 2. Civil Society and Immigrants -- 3. New Immigrants as Pariahs -- 4. Religious Options for Urban Immigrants -- 5. Reimagining Religious Pluralism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index
