Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America

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There are over 1.5 million Asian Indians in the Americas, most of whom have transplanted the religious customs of their homeland. Transplanting Religious Traditions is a study of how individuals, families, and small groups transport and sustain their religious practices and how they eventually construct stable religious institutions suited to the American context. The book centers on the Indian community in Atlanta, Georgia from 1979 to 1988 but relates the study to America's East Indian population as a whole. Social scientists, religion scholars and students, as well as all members of the East Indian-American community, will find this a valuable study.

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"This is an excellent contribution to the emergng lieterature on jAsian Indians abroad."-American Anthropologist
. . .informative and powerful. Chapters on Asian Indians in Atlanta, individual and family religion, cultural institutions, temples and mosques, and a very important one on the second generation introduce the community in Atlanta. Recommended for research libraries with collections on American religion and immigration.-Religious Studies Review
." . .informative and powerful. Chapters on Asian Indians in Atlanta, individual and family religion, cultural institutions, temples and mosques, and a very important one on the second generation introduce the community in Atlanta. Recommended for research libraries with collections on American religion and immigration."-Religious Studies Review

Author Bio

JOHN Y. FENTON has been engaged in college and graduate teaching and research concerned with Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions, cross-cultural mysticism, and cross-cultural theology for 20 years at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.