Williams on South Asian religions and immigration : collected works
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Williams on South Asian religions and immigration : collected works
（Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion : collected works）
Ashgate, c2004
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South Asian religions and immigration
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-272) and index
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Description
The dual foci for this collection of Raymond Williams' most important writings are Swaminarayan Hinduism and South Asian immigrants in the United States. Both are topics of wide and growing interest in India and in many countries where South Indians have settled. Swaminarayan Hinduism's growth in the past few decades in India and among Indians abroad has been remarkable: one subsect now has 8100 centers around the world where weekly meetings are held. The second focus is on the religions of South Asian immigrants: Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs and Christians. The first section is introductory and sets the stage through an analysis of the transmission of religious traditions. The second section moves from the development of Swaminarayan Hinduism and its leadership in India to its development in the United States as exemplified in Chicago. The third section analyzes the impact South Asian religions are having in the United States, and the effects that migration and modernization are having on the religions of the immigrants.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Part 1 Transmission of Religious Traditions: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem or Bombay? Tradition and the liberal arts
- The sacred thread: transmission of tradition
- Sacred threads of several textures. Part 2 Swaminarayan Hinduism: Presentation of the Shikshapatri to Sir John Malcom
- Holy man as religious specialist: acharya tradition in Vaishnavism
- Holy man as abode of god in Swaminarayan Hinduism
- The guru as pastoral counselor
- Training religious specialists for a transnational Hinduism: a Swaminarayan sadhu training center
- Terror invades paradise
- The Swaminarayan Hindy temple in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Part 3 Religions of Immigrants From South Asia: Asian-Indian and Pakistani religions in the United States
- Religion and ethnicity in America
- Negotiating the tradition: religious organizations and Gujarati identity in the United States
- A brief history of religions of South Asian religions in the United States
- Asian-Indian Muslims in the United States
- South Asian Christians
- Immigrants from India and Hindu-Christian dialogue. References
- Index.
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