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Article: The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States.(Review)
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States, HAROLD COWARD, JOHN R. HINNELLS, and RAYMOND BRADY WILLIAMS (eds.). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000, 301 pp. $62.50 (cloth), $20.95 (paper).
A few years ago I got interested in immigrants and religion and decided to do the usual literature review. I wanted to work out my own research plan based on precedents, but to my astonishment, there were almost no precedents. I began to doubt my ability to do a simple literature search. After all, this was an important topic; surely scholars in Religious Studies or Sociology or Anthropology must have looked at the ways that ...