American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. By Duncan Ryūken Williams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pages. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN 9780674237087.
關鍵詞
American Buddhism; Japanese American; Japanese American incarceration; religious freedom; review; World War II
摘要
American Sutra is the first comprehensive study of the history of Buddhism in the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the Pacific War. As Williams notes, this is a topic that has heretofore been relatively understudied in the history of a country that continues to be seen as white and Christian.