Religion and Resistance in America's Concentration Camps

An examination of the role of ethnic religion -- Buddhism & Shintoism -- in resistance among the Japanese Americans confined primarily at Tule Lake concentration camp during WWII. The resurgence of ethnic religious belief is seen as part of a wider network of cultural resistance, which was direc...

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Americanization
Buddhism
Christianity
Churches
Concentration camps
Cultural resistance
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Internment camps
Japan/Japanese
Japanese culture
Religion/Religions/Religious
Solidarity
The five bonds
World War II
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