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Klappentext 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. The entries are divided into four chronological periods. The first section traces the initial attempts to map the earliest contacts! 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 had stopped and Euro-American interst in Asian religions was minimal; and the final section! which takes us to the present! covers a time when the encounter intensifies greatly. Zusammenfassung For over two centuries! Asian immigrants have been coming to America and bringing their religions with them. This study shows the breadth and depth of the American encounter with Asian religions.
