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2019, Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present
This article surveys the development of Pure Land Buddhism from medieval China to Japan, from medieval Japan to modern Japan, and from Japan to the United States. It explores the two Honganjis' development of Shin Buddhism in the United States as Japanese immigrants entered the U.S. from the late nineteenth century on. As a case study, the article examines the development of BCA ( the Buddhist Churches of America) among the Japanese American community. It also compares and contrasts the pattens of community building and religious practice between the Chinese and Japanese American Pure Land Buddhist followers.
Essays in History (University of Virginia)
Review of Immigrants to the Pure Land: the Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-19412012 •
This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning field of American Buddhism, expanding our knowledge of Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū) in the United States between the 1880s and the 1930s, the formative years of its overseas development. Ama Michihiro provides textual details and fascinating insights on the evolution of Shin Buddhist churches and teachings in mainland North America and Hawai’i through careful studies of prewar Japanese documents. His research draws extensively upon the BCA Archives (the Buddhist Church of America), one of the earliest Buddhist organizations in the United States which was renamed the Buddhist Mission of North America of Nishi Honganji (BMNA) in the decades prior to World War II, and Nishi and Higashi Honganjis’ writings and periodicals published in the United States and Japan. This study of the ethnic religion pays close attention to the Nishi Honganji branch and touches on Higashi Honganji’s overseas propagation despite the relative paucity of primary sources. By examining the Shin churches’ religious and institutional expansion in relation to and in dialogue with the Honganji headquarters’ development in Japan and the American immigration and racial policies toward the Japanese immigrants, Ama successfully demonstrates that the Nishi Honganji ministers succeeded in their early overseas propagation by mainly addressing Japanese Americans’ cultural and ethnic experience in Hawai’i and North America. These Shin ministers’ perseverance and adaptability also played a crucial role in Shin Buddhism’s institutional spread until the 1930s.
The relations between religion, migration, transnationalism, pluralism, and ethnicity have gained increasing focus in religious, cultural, sociological, and anthropological studies. With its manifold transfigurations across time and location, Buddhism is an obvious case for investigating such issues. Hawaii, with its long migration history and religious pluralism, is an obvious living laboratory for studying such configurations. This article investigates Japanese American Buddhism in Hawaii, focusing on the relationship between religion and ethnicity. By analyzing contemporary religious life and the historical context of two Japanese American Zen temples in Maui, it is argued that the ethnic and cultural divide related to spirituality follow a general tendency by which the secularization of Japanese Americans' communal Sangha Buddhism is counterbalanced by a different group's spiritualization of Buddhism. Journal of Global Buddhism 14, 2013
Religious Studies Review
American Buddhism as a Way of Life - Edited by Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge2011 •
Despite being one of the most influential forms of Japanese Buddhism, the Pure Land tradition, and notably its impact on the development of Japanese cultural history, has often been overlooked outside Japan. Taking into account recent scholarship on orientalism and occidentalism, this book, written from the perspective of the Study of Religions, provides an analysis of the impact that the Pure Land tradition, in particular Shin Buddhism, has exerted on mainstream forms of artistic expression (especially visual arts, literature and the tea ceremony) in modern and contemporary Japan.
Peace & Change
Seeking the Truth, Spiritual and Political: Japanese American Community Building through Engaged Ethnic Buddhism2010 •
This essay documents the history of the Senshin Buddhist Temple in South Central Los Angeles, a Japanese American temple belonging to the Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) School. In the United States, ethnic Buddhists are generally perceived as socially conservative and politically passive, while convert Buddhists are known to be active in peace movements and social activism. The essay analyzes the reforms Senshin members introduced to the temple’s religious rituals and elucidates the development of new cultural activities and art forms, which not only contributed to the emergence of vernacular ethnic art and music, but also to the construction of a community of socially engaged Japanese American Buddhists. By opening their temple to members of local minority communities, Senshin Buddhists formed artistic and political coalitions with other peoples of color, harboring subaltern cultural activism, which transgressed national, racial, and religious borders, and defied hegemonic racial, gender, and class hierarchies.
he front cover of Buddhism Beyond Borders: New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States is decorated with a flag. Not an American flag, as one might assume given the subtitle of the edited collection, but rather the Buddhist flag designed in 1885 by the Colombo Committee, a group of Ceylonese Buddhists, and modified by Henry Steel Olcott, the first " White Buddhist. " Although Olcott and the Protestant Buddhism he produced has generally been dismissed if not reviled by Western Buddhist scholars as inauthentic and diluted, he is still revered by Sri Lankan Buddhists in the U.S. who not only decorate their temples with the flag, but sometimes even include a statue of Olcott himself. The choice to represent the collection with a universal rather than national flag and the contrast in how such a symbol has been received in scholarly and practice communities signifies much of what is explored in Buddhism Beyond Borders. The text aims to expand both the geographical boundaries of American Buddhism and the theoretical parameters that have often defined its academic study. Hence it shifts attention from the bounded category of nation to the cultural flows of the transnational and replaces the static binary framework of traditional (authentic) Asian Buddhism vs modern (inauthentic) American Buddhism with a dynamic model that reveals/revels in fluidity, hybridity and multiplicity. In doing so, the collection also makes a compelling case for bringing the subfield out from the margins into the mainstream of Buddhist Studies by showing its subject matter is not a deviant from the norm but, in fact, exemplifies what Buddhism as a living, moving tradition has always done: creatively adapt, absorb and assimilate. As Richard Payne advocates in his Afterword, the text suggests the need to replace a rhetoric of rupture that emphasizes difference and opposition with a narrative of similarity and continuity that is more faithful to the historical complexity of Buddhism's spatial and temporal movement. Before reflecting on the text's conclusions, however, let's look further into its conception and content. The immediate origin of Buddhism Beyond Borders lies in a four-day conference held in March 2010 at the Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate T
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