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American Sutra : A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War / Duncan Ryūken Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674237087
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.531773089956 23
LOC classification:
  • D769.8.A6 .W555 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra -- 1. America: A Nation of Religious Freedom? -- 2. Martial Law -- 3. Japanese America under Siege -- 4. Camp Dharma -- 5. Sangha behind Barbed Wire -- 6. Reinventing American Buddhism -- 7. Onward Buddhist Soldiers -- 8. Loyalty and the Draft -- 9. Combat in Europe -- 10. The Resettlement -- Epilogue: The Stones Speak: An American Sutra -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals the little-known story of how, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, a community of Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra -- 1. America: A Nation of Religious Freedom? -- 2. Martial Law -- 3. Japanese America under Siege -- 4. Camp Dharma -- 5. Sangha behind Barbed Wire -- 6. Reinventing American Buddhism -- 7. Onward Buddhist Soldiers -- 8. Loyalty and the Draft -- 9. Combat in Europe -- 10. The Resettlement -- Epilogue: The Stones Speak: An American Sutra -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals the little-known story of how, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, a community of Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)