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ISBN-10: 0813540550

ISBN-13: 9780813540559

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Multiculturalism within the usa is often lauded as a favorable social perfect celebrating the range of our kingdom. yet, actually, immigrants usually believe careworn to create a novel formula of their identification that doesn't replicate the variety of cultures that exist of their place of birth. Hindu americans have confronted this problem over the final fifteen years, because the variety of Indians that experience immigrated to this kingdom has greater than doubled.

In A position on the Multicultural Table, Prema A. Kurien exhibits how a number of Hindu American organizations--religious, cultural, and political--are trying to resolution the perplexing questions of id outdoors their fatherland. Drawing at the reviews of either immigrant and American-born Hindu americans, Kurien demonstrates how spiritual principles and practices are being imported, exported, and reshaped within the strategy. the results of this transnational flow is an American Hinduism--an equipped, politicized, and standardized model of that that is present in India.

This first in-depth examine Hinduism within the usa and the Hindu Indian American group is helping readers to appreciate the non-public devotions, practices, and ideology of Hindu Indian americans in addition to their political mobilization and activism. It explains the variations among immigrant and American-born Hindu american citizens, how either comprehend their faith and their id, and it emphasizes the significance of the social and cultural context of the USA in influencing the improvement of an American Hinduism.

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