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Title Issei Buddhism in the Americas / edited by Duncan Ryûken Williams and Tomoe Moriya
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
Contents Nation and identity. "Can I put this Jizō together with the Virgin Mary in the altar?" : Creolizing Zen Buddhism in Brazil / Cristina Rocha -- Bukkyōkai and the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia / Masaka Iino -- Education and law. The Japanese language school controversy in Hawaii / Noriko Asato -- The legal dimensions of the formation of Shin Buddhist temples in Los Angeles / Michihiro Ama -- Race and print culture. Buddhist modernism in English-language Buddhist periodicals / Lori Pierce -- "Americanization" and "tradition" in Issei and Nisei Buddhist publications / Tomoe Moriya -- Patriotism and war. The United States-Japanese war and Tenrikyo ministers in America / Akihiro Yamakura -- The role of Buddhist song culture in international acculturation / Keiko Wells
Summary While Buddhists in Japan had long described the migration of the religion as traveling from India, across Asia, and ending in Japan, this collection details the movement of Buddhism across the Pacific to the Americas. Leading the way were pioneering, first-generation Issei priests and their followers who established temples, shared Buddhist teachings, and converted non-Buddhists in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book explores these pioneering efforts in the context of Japanese diasporic communities and immigration history and the early history of Buddhism in the Americas. The result is an exploration of the history of Asian immigrant religion that encompasses such topics as Japanese language instruction in Hawaiian schools, the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia, the roles of Buddhist song culture, Tenrikyo ministers in America, and Zen Buddhism in Brazil. --From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Buddhism -- America
Japanese -- America
Immigrants -- America
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- History.
Buddhism
Immigrants
Japanese
America
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Duncan Ryūken, 1969-
Moriya, Tomoe, 1968-
LC no. 2019718668
ISBN 9780252092893
0252092899
128294164X
9781282941649
025203533X
9780252035333
9786612941641
6612941642