Sutra and Bible
janmstore.com

Sutra and Bible

$39.95
{{option.name}}: {{selected_options[option.position]}}
{{value_obj.value}}
Store Logo

Japanese American National Museum Store

View Store

Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration  This is the companion catalog to the JANM exhibition (2022) Sutra and Bible, the first museum exhibition to feature religion as a central prism through which we understand the wartime Japanese American experience. Together, the exhibit and this unique catalog explore the role that religious teachings, practices, and communities played in the WWII Japanese American experience beginning in 1941. From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal, indefinite incarceration, unjust deportation, family separation, military service, and resettlement at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national security. Co-curators and co-editors, Duncan Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson, invite readers to journey through Japanese American spiritual adaptation during wartime, and to wonder:

Show More Show Less