Issei Buddhism In The Americas

Book Summary


With contributions from scholars on both sides of the Pacific. Issei Buddhism in the Americas upends boundaries and categories that have tied Buddhism to Asia and illuminates the social and spiritual role that the religion has played in the Americas. 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. Contributors describe the pioneering efforts of first-generation Issei priests and their followers within the context of Japanese diasporic communities and immigration history and the early history of Buddhism in the Americas. The result is a dramatic 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, and Zen Buddhism in Brazil.

Book Details


Book Name Issei Buddhism In The Americas
Author Duncan Ryuken Williams, Tomoe Moriya
Publisher University Of Illinois Press (May 2010)
ISBN 9780252077197
Pages 191
Language English
Price 1155
 
 

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