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Originally published in Millennialism: An International Bibliography by Garland Publishing New York, 1992. Reproduced here by permission.

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         632. Smart, Ninian. "Asian Culture and the Impact of the West." In New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society edited by Eileen Barker. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982: 140-54.
        These are interesting cases because they represent two opposing ways of dealing with cultural intrusion: reorganize old values in a new ideology (India) or accept foreign values but give them an "indigenous face" (China).

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