Immigrants to the Pure Land

Authors

• Michihiro Ama

Document Type

Recording, Oral

Abstract

Michihiro Ama's new book is called Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941. In it his "investigation of the early period of Jodo Shinshu in Hawai'i and the United States sets a new standard for investigating the processes of religious acculturation and a radically new way of thinking about these processes." At this event, Michihiro Ama examines the concept of acculturation as a dual process of both "Japanization" and "Americanization." Michihiro Ama currently teaches at UAA in the Department of Languages.

Publication Date

4-11-2011

Recommended Citation

Ama, Michihiro, "Immigrants to the Pure Land" (2011). Special Events. 63.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_bookstore_events/63

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11450