American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War

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.

Author(s): Duncan Ryūken Williams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2019-02-19
Pages: 401
Categories: History