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Subject(s)

• Japanese Americans—Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 [Browse]
• Buddhists—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Buddhism and state—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Buddhism and politics—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Japanese Americans [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History—20th century [Browse]

Summary note

The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese-American 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.-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-371) and index.

Contents

• Prologue: Thus have I heard: an American sutra
• 1. America: a nation of religious freedom?
• December 7, 1941
• American Buddhism: migrations to freedom
• Buddhism as a national security threat
• Surveilling Buddhism
• Compiling registries
• 2. Martial law in the land of aloha
• Buddhist life under martial law
• Camps in the land of aloha
• 3. Japanese America under siege
• War hysteria
• Tightening the noose
• Executive Order 9066
• The forced "relocation"
• 4. Camp Dharma
• The Dharma in the high-security camps
• Lotus blossoms above muddy water
• 5. Sangha behind barbed wire
• Horse stable Buddhism
• "Barrack churches" in camp
• 6. Reinventing American Buddhism
• Adapting Buddhism
• Sect and trans-sect
• Interfaith cooperation
• Rooting the Sangha
• 7. Onward Buddhist soldiers
• Richard Sakakida, American spy
• The military intelligence service (mis)
• Draftees and volunteers
• The 100th Battalion
• The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
• 8. Loyalty and the draft
• The loyalty questionnaire
• Tule Lake Segregation Center
• Leave clearance and the draft
• 9. Combat in Europe
• Dog tags
• Chaplains
• Fallen soldiers
• 10. The resettlement
• Return to a hostile West Coast
• Temples as homes
• Resettling in Hawai'i and Japan
• Buddhism in America's heartland
• Epilogue: The stones speak: an American sutra.

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ISBN

• 9780674986534 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
• 0674986539 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018036377

OCLC

1057244241

Other standard number

• 40028823128

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