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New PDF release: Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American

By Anne M. Blankenship

ISBN-10: 1469629194

ISBN-13: 9781469629193

ISBN-10: 1469629208

ISBN-13: 9781469629209

Anne M. Blankenship's examine of Christianity within the notorious camps the place eastern american citizens have been incarcerated in the course of global warfare II yields insights either far-reaching and well timed. whereas such a lot eastern american citizens maintained their conventional identities as Buddhists, a mammoth minority pointed out as Christian, and a couple of church leaders sought to minister to them within the camps. Blankenship exhibits how church leaders have been pressured to evaluate the ethics and pragmatism of struggling with opposed to or acquiescing to what they sincerely perceived, even in the course of a countrywide quandary, as an unjust social method. those non secular activists grew to become conscious about the influence of presidency, in addition to church, guidelines that exact traditional americans of numerous ethnicities.

Going in the course of the doorways of the camp church buildings and delving deeply into the spiritual stories of the incarcerated and the trustworthy who aided them, Blankenship argues that the incarceration interval brought new social and felony methods for Christians of all stripes to problem the constitutionality of presidency rules on race and civil rights. She additionally indicates how the camp event nourished the roots of an Asian American liberation theology that sprouted within the sixties and seventies.

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