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Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II
Anne M. Blankenship
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
Anne M. Blankenship's study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. While most Japanese Americans maintained their traditional identities as Buddhists, a sizeable minority identified as Christian, and a number of church leaders sought to minister to them in the camps. Blankenship shows how church leaders were forced to assess the ethics and pragmatism of fighting against or acquiescing to what they clearly perceived, even in the midst of a national crisis, as an unjust social system. These religious activists became acutely aware of the impact of government, as well as church, policies that targeted ordinary Americans of diverse ethnicities.
Going through the doors of the camp churches and delving deeply into the religious experiences of the incarcerated and the faithful who aided them, Blankenship argues that the incarceration period introduced new social and legal approaches for Christians of all stripes to challenge the constitutionality of government policies on race and civil rights. She also shows how the camp experience nourished the roots of an Asian American liberation theology that sprouted in the sixties and seventies.
Kundenbewertungen
Maryknoll Missions, Gordon Hirabayashi, religious liberty, Japanese American internment, Japanese American incarceration, World War II homefront, racial discrimination, Japanese Americans, Asian American theology, Quakers, Tule Lake Relocation Center, religion and civil rights, Camp Harmony Assembly Center, American Protestant ecumenism, War Relocation Authority, Asian American Christianity, racial integration of churches, religion and social justice, American Friends Service Committee, Home Missions Council of North America, ecumenical worship, American Catholicism, Seattle, Poston Relocation Center, Federal Council of Churches, Minidoka Relocation Center, Protestant civil rights activism, ethnic churches