American Sutra : A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War /
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, in...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2019]
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Table of 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