1. Japanese Americans and Civil Religion
... "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939 ... creates groups within itself, Japanese religion is universal. The author also states that there is an: "interwoven sense of religion (spiritual healing and development), politics (an awareness of discrimination and prejudice), and culture (kinship and acceptance) that is not confined to the walls of the c...
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- Grade Level: Graduate