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Book Talk with "American Sutra" Author Duncan Ryuken Williams

April 8, 2019 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Presbyterian Historical Society

Please join us on Monday April 8th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Presbyterian Historical Society for a special event featuring author Duncan Ryuken Williams, Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Reception and book signing to follow. Free parking on a limited basis. For more information, contact Clorinda Moore at cmoore@history.pcusa.org or 215-928-3865.

This event is co-sponsored by the Presbyterian Historical Society and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. The event is free with a suggested donation of $10 to support the work of PHS and the JACL. Registration is strongly encouraged.

American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this path-breaking account, Duncan Ryuken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.

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