American Sutra : : A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War / / Duncan Ryūken Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Williams, Duncan Ryūken,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Prologue: Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra --; 1. America: A Nation of Religious Freedom? --; 2. Martial Law --; 3. Japanese America under Siege --; 4. Camp Dharma --; 5. Sangha behind Barbed Wire --; 6. Reinventing American Buddhism --; 7. Onward Buddhist Soldiers --; 8. Loyalty and the Draft --; 9. Combat in Europe --; 10. The Resettlement --; Epilogue: The Stones Speak: An American Sutra --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674237087; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674237087?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Duncan Ryūken Williams.

Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals the little-known story of how, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, a community of 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.