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American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War

English

By (author): Duncan Ryken Williams

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller


Raises timely and important questions about what religious freedom in America truly means.
Ruth Ozeki

A must-read for anyone interested in the implacable quest for civil liberties, social and racial justice, religious freedom, and American belonging.
George Takei

On December 7, 1941, as the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, the first person detained was the leader of the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist sect in Hawaii. Nearly all Japanese Americans were subject to accusations of disloyalty, but Buddhists aroused particular suspicion. From the White House to the local town council, many believed that Buddhism was incompatible with American values. Intelligence agencies targeted the Buddhist community, and Buddhist priests were deemed a threat to national security.

In this pathbreaking account, based on personal accounts and extensive research in untapped archives, Duncan Ryken 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 nations history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.

A searingly instructive storyfrom which all Americans might learn.
Smithsonian

Williams moving account shows how Japanese Americans transformed Buddhism into an American religion, and, through that struggle, changed the United States for the better.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer

Reading this book, one cannot help but think of the current racial and religious tensions that have gripped this nationand shudder.
Reza Aslan, author of Zealot

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Product Details
  • Weight: 560g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Feb 2020
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674244856

About Duncan Ryken Williams

An ordained Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition Duncan Ryken Williams has spent years piecing together the story of the Japanese American community during World War II. A renowned scholar of Buddhism he has taught at the University of California Berkeley University of California Irvine and Trinity College and is now the Director of the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California. He has published five other books including The Other Side of Zen.

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