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"The 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 Ryūken 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. Nearly all Americans of Japanese descent were subject to bigotry and accusations of disloyalty, but Buddhists aroused particular suspicion. Government officials, from the White House to small-town mayors, believed that Buddhism was incompatible with American values. Intelligence agencies targeted the Buddhist community for surveillance, and Buddhist priests were deemed a threat to national security. On December 7, 1941, as the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, Attorney General Francis Biddle issued a warrant to "take into custody all Japanese" classified as potential national security threats. The first person detained was Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba, leader of the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist sect in Hawai`i. In the face of discrimination, dislocation, dispossession, and confinement, Japanese Americans turned to their faith to sustain them, whether they were behind barbed wire in camps or serving in one of the most decorated combat units in the European theater. Using newly translated sources and extensive interviews with survivors of the camps and veterans of the war, American Sutra reveals how the Japanese American community broadened our country's conception of religious freedom and forged a new American Buddhism."--Dust jacket.

Japanese Americans --- Buddhists --- Buddhism and state --- Buddhism and politics --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. --- History --- Japanese Americans. --- United States --- Race relations --- American values. --- Japanese internment. --- Minidoka. --- Nichiren Buddhism. --- Shingon Buddhism. --- Tule Lake. --- War Relocation Authority. --- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

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Buddhism --- Japanese --- Immigrants

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Buddhism is a tradition which has cultivated a profound sense of the interconnection of all life-forms in its doctrine of dependent origination. This teaching of interrelatedness may be a critical basis for the recovery of human reciprocity with nature and with all life-forms. This volume examines Buddhism's understanding of the intricate web of life. In noting the cultural diversity of Buddhism, it highlights aspects of the tradition which may be helpful in formulating an effective environmental ethics. It cites examples from both Asia and the United States of socially engaged Buddhist projects to protect the environment. Finally, the volume explores some of the theoretical and methodological issues involved in such a project. Elaborating upon topics introduced at a conference at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, the authors analyze the prospects and the problems of using Buddhism as an environmental resource in both theory and practice.

#SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:316.331H351 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Godsdienst en verstedelijking --- Ecology --- Human ecology --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Buddhism --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Ecology - Religious aspects - Buddhism.

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Buddhism --- Asian Americans --- Buddhists --- Buddhist converts --- Buddhist renewal

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