num_pages: 432
description: This book presents the American encounter with Asian religions through a wide range of documents -- written and visual from elite and popular culture -- dating from 1788 to the present. Coverage of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam predominate, though selections from other religions are included -- Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Sikhism. The entries are divided into four chronological periods. The first section traces the initial attempts to map the earliest contracts, up to 1840; the second section, from 1840 to 1924, presents the first real passages -- from east to west and west to east; the third, from 1924 to 1965, sketches a drifting period when immigration has stopped and Euro-American interest in Asian religions was minimal; and the final section, which takes us to the present, covers a time when the encounter intensifies greatly.
language: English
title: Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History
titlecomplete: Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History
genres: Asian Literature, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Oxford University Press