ABSTRACT
The religions of ethnic minorities are increasingly making news in Western societies. There are various reasons why this is so although they tend to polarize around a number of key themes. Although fundamentalist movements have emerged among the major world religions, including Judaism, Hinduism, and Sikhism, to Westerners the forces of Islamic revival seem the most alarming and potentially dangerous expression. The rise of fundamentalist movements is to some degree due to Western world dominance. This chapter discusses how the global expansion of fundamentalist non-Christian religion has also influenced ethnic minorities in the West and there are direct implications for the nations of Europe and North America. It is concerned with discussing the complex situation of world religions other than Christianity within Western societies. The chapter also discusses Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam, explaining each one's adaptation in the West.
