American Sutra

American Sutra
Author: Duncan Ryuken Williams
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674986539
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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.--