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Hinduism in America: An Introduction

Hinduism in America: An Introduction

Altman, Michael J.

Paperback

Series: Religion in America

General SociologyHinduism

ISBN10: 1138389641
ISBN13: 9781138389649
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 29 2022
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India. It is not a book that will tell you what Hinduism is; rather, it is an introduction to the variety of ways in which Hinduism has been represented, constructed, and practiced in the United States. Americans have been interested in the religions of India since the colonial period, and by the late nineteenth century the first Hindu teachers arrived in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, interest in Hinduism and yoga grew, even as anti-Asian and anti-immigrant politics and policies in America intensified. When the Cold War led to changes in U.S. immigration policy in 1965, new immigrant communities arrived in the United States and built new Hindu institutions.

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