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American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
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9780674244856; Williams, Duncan; paperback; 344 pages
Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals the little-known story of how, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, a community of Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.
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