TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiculturalism, immigrant religion, and diasporic nationalism
T2 - The development of an American Hinduism
AU - Kurien, Prema
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - Hinduism has undergone several modifications in interpretation, practice, and organization in the United States in the process of being institutionalized as an American religion. While Hindu American spokespersons espouse a genteel pluralism and attempt to use Hinduism to secure a place at the American multicultural table, they also use the ideology of multiculturalism to justify and legitimize a militant Hindu nationalism. Drawing on this contradiction, the article develops a theoretical model to explain 1) why multiculturalism often seems to exacerbate émigré nationalism, and 2) why religion is often involved directly or indirectly in this process.
AB - Hinduism has undergone several modifications in interpretation, practice, and organization in the United States in the process of being institutionalized as an American religion. While Hindu American spokespersons espouse a genteel pluralism and attempt to use Hinduism to secure a place at the American multicultural table, they also use the ideology of multiculturalism to justify and legitimize a militant Hindu nationalism. Drawing on this contradiction, the article develops a theoretical model to explain 1) why multiculturalism often seems to exacerbate émigré nationalism, and 2) why religion is often involved directly or indirectly in this process.
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U2 - 10.1525/sp.2004.51.3.362
DO - 10.1525/sp.2004.51.3.362
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3543055937
SN - 0037-7791
VL - 51
SP - 362
EP - 385
JO - Social Problems
JF - Social Problems
IS - 3
ER -