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Immigrants to the Pure Land - The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941
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Immigrants to the Pure Land - The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941
Series: Pure Land Buddhist Studies
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Religious acculturation is typically seen as a one-way process: The
dominant religious culture imposes certain behavioral patterns,
ethical standards, social values, and organizational and legal
requirements onto the immigrant religious tradition. In this view,
American society is the active partner in the relationship, while
the newly introduced tradition is the passive recipient being
changed. Michihiro Ama’s investigation of the early period of
Jodo Shinshu in Hawai‘i and the United States sets a new standard
for investigating the processes of religious acculturation and a
radically new way of thinking about these processes. Most studies
of American religious history are conceptually grounded in a
European perspectival position, regarding the U.S. as a
continuation of trends and historical events that begin in Europe.
Only recently have scholars begun to shift their perspectival locus
to Asia. Ama’s use of materials spans the Pacific as he draws on
never-before-studied archival works in Japan as well as the U.S.
More important, Ama locates immigrant Jodo Shinshu at the interface
of two expansionist nations. At the end of the nineteenth and
beginning of the twentieth centuries, both Japan and the U.S. were
extending their realms of influence into the Pacific, where they
came into contact—and eventually conflict—with one another.
Jodo Shinshu in Hawai‘i and California was altered in relation to
a changing Japan just as it was responding to changes in the U.S.
Because Jodo Shinshu’s institutional history in the U.S. and the
Pacific occurs at a contested interface, Ama defines its
acculturation as a dual process of both "Japanization" and
"Americanization." Immigrants to the Pure Land explores in detail
the activities of individual Shin Buddhist ministers responsible
for making specific decisions regarding the practice of Jodo
Shinshu in local sanghas. By focusing so closely, Ama reveals the
contestation of immigrant communities faced with discrimination and
exploitation in their new homes and with changing messages from
Japan. The strategies employed, whether accommodation to the
dominant religious culture or assertion of identity, uncover the
history of an American church in the making.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Pure Land Buddhist Studies |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
Authors: |
Michihiro Ama
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
328 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9677-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9677-7 |
Barcode: |
9780824896775 |
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