Suggestions for Further Reading:

Eastern Religions


Bespuda, Anastasia. Guide to Orthodox America. Tuckahoe, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1965.

Ellwood, Robert S., Jr. The Eagle and the Rising Sun: Americans and the New Religions of Japan. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974.

_____, and Partin, Harry B. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988,

Ferraby, John. All Things Made New: A Comprehensive Outline of the Baha'i Faith. Rev. ed. London: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1975.

Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1981.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and Lummis, Adair T. Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

_____, and Smith, Jane Idleman. Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.

_____, eds. Muslim Communities in North America. SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Hopkins, Thomas J. The Hindu Religious Tradition. The Religious Life of Man Series. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1971.

Jackson, Carl T. The Oriental Religions and American Thought: Nineteenth-Century Explorations. Contributions in American Studies, No. 55. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

_____. Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Kashima, Tetsuden. Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of an Ethnic Religious Institution. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.

Layman, Emma McCloy. Buddhism in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976.

Martin, Richard C. Islam: A Cultural Perspective. Prentice-Hall Series in World Religions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.

Neusner, Jacob, ed. World Religions in America: An Introduction. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.

Prebish, Charles S. American Buddhism. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1979.

Robinson, Richard H., and Johnson, Willard L. The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction. 3d ed. The Religious Life of Man Series. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1982.

Saloutos, Theodore. The Greeks in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Seager, Richard Hughes. The World's Parliament of Religions: The East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Stockman, Robert H. The Baha'i Faith in America: Origins, 1892 -- 1900. Wilmette, IL: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1985.

Tweed, Thomas A. The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844 -- 1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Williams, Raymond Brady. Religions of Immigrants from India and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.