American sutra a story of faith and freedom in the Second World War /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2019
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Table of 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