- Prologue: Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra
- Buried Texts, Buried Memories
- 1. America: A Nation of Religious Freedom?
- December 7, 1941
- American Buddhism: Migrations to Freedom
- Buddhism as a National Security Threat
- Surveilling Buddhism
- Compiling Registries
- 2. Martial Law
- Buddhist Life under Martial Law
- Camps in the Land of Aloha
- 3. Japanese America under Siege
- War Hysteria
- Tightening the Noose
- Executive Order 9066
- The Forced “Relocation”
- 4. Camp Dharma
- The Dharma in the High-Security Camps
- 5. Sangha behind Barbed Wire
- Horse Stable Buddhism
- “Barrack Churches” in Camp
- 6. Reinventing American Buddhism
- Adapting Buddhism
- Sect and Trans-Sect
- Interfaith Cooperation
- Rooting the Sangha
- 7. Onward Buddhist Soldiers
- Richard Sakakida, American Spy
- The Military Intelligence Service
- Draftees and Volunteers
- The 100th Battalion
- The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
- 8. Loyalty and the Draft
- The Loyalty Questionnaire
- Tule Lake Segregation Center
- Leave Clearance and the Draft
- 9. Combat in Europe
- Dog Tags
- Chaplains
- Fallen Soldiers
- 10. The Resettlement
- Return to a Hostile West Coast
- Temples as Homes
- Resettling in Hawai‘i and Japan
- Buddhism in America’s Heartland
- Epilogue: The Stones Speak: An American Sutra
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index


American Sutra
A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00
ISBN 9780674986534
Publication Date: 02/19/2019