This volume looks at the intersection of race and religion in the United States before, during, and after World War II, when Nisei (second-generation) Japanese American Jodo Shinshu (or Shin) Buddhists reacted to the trauma of racial and religious discrimination.

Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism.

• Prologue: Kashiwagi's Narrative


• Introduction: Buddhism Rephrased


• 1. The Buddhist Movement in America


• 2. A Rational Teaching


• 3. All This and Discrimination


• 4. A House for Our Hopes


• 5. Where the Heart Belongs


• Conclusion: As All Things Go


• Epilogue: Our Narrative


• Bibliography


• Index