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Article: Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History.(Review)
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- Buddhist-Christian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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ASIAN RELIGIONS IN AMERICA: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Edited by Thomas A. Tweed and Stephen Prothero. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 416 pp.
Although this book is not about interreligious dialogue per se, it makes several important contributions to it. Two of the necessities for successful interreligious dialogue are a knowledge of the religions of other cultures and an awareness of one's own culture's past misinterpretations of these religions in order to guard against repeating them. This book helps accomplish both of these aims very well. First it helps to understand Asian religions as they are practiced in the United States. This book discusses ...