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Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own iden

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Author

Michael J. Altman

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190654931

Category

religious

Subjects

History, Religion, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25