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Control # 1 2018036377
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20191126142312.0
Fixed Data 8 180814s2019 mau b 001 0 eng c
LC Card 10    $a 2018036377
ISBN 20    $a9780674986534$q(alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a316402$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aMH/DLC$beng$erda$cMH$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aD769.8.A6$bW55 2019
Dewey Class 82 00 $a940.53/1773089956$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWilliams, Duncan Ryuken,$d1969-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aAmerican sutra :$ba story of faith and freedom in the Second World War /$cDuncan Ryuken Williams.
Tag 264 264  1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2019.
Phys Descrpt 300    $aviii, 384 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $aThe mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryuken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese-American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.--$cProvided by publisher
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aPrologue: Thus have I heard: an American sutra -- Buried texts, buried memories -- 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 -- 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.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aJapanese Americans$xForced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBuddhists$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBuddhism and state$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBuddhism and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJapanese Americans.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century.