Paul D. Numrich

Paul D. Numrich, Ph.D., is a research associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, conducting research out of the department's McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion. Dr. Numrich co-directs the Religion, Immigration and Civil Society in Chicago Project, a three-year scholarly investigation of religion's role in the social engagement of recent immigrant groups, and also directs projects on culturally competent health care for immigrant patients and local Christian responses to increasing religious diversity.

Dr. Numrich's publications include an award-winning book, Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples (University of Tennessee Press, 1996); portions of the volume Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America in the acclaimed Religion in American Life Series (Oxford University Press, 2001); and numerous essays. Dr. Numrich also serves as an advisor and consultant for projects and initiatives, such as the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, the Religion, Culture, and Family Project at the University of Chicago, and the US State Department's Buddhist Roundtable.

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