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| A Test of Religious Tolerance: Canadian Government and Jodo Shinshu Buddhism During the Pacific War, 1941-1945 | ||
| 作者 | Ichikawa, Akira (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Canadian Ethnic Studies |
| 卷期 | v.26 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 1994 |
| 頁次 | 46 - 69 |
| 出版者 | The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association |
| 出版者網址 | https://cesa-scee.ca/english-landing/ |
| 出版地 | Calgary, Canada [卡加利, 加拿大] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Shin Buddhists; Canada; World War; Religious Tolenance |
| 摘要 | Canada's treatment of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist ministers and adherents between 1941 and 1945 unfolded against the backdrop of a bigger drama that overshadowed and affected it: the wholesale removal of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. To claim that government assumed a tolerant stance toward the ministers and the faith as compensation for suspending due process raises the perennial dilemma facing democracies: what freedoms get priority when national security is thought to be at risk? The episode also shows how fallible bureaucrats translated policy into procedures supportive of religious liberty. Jodo Shinshu is described from its unfavorable pre-war image to its post-war renewal, the latter boosted by a government dispersal policy that helped to spread it across Canada. The wartime experience remains an example of what could happen to religious, racial or other minorities during a crisis, however much multiculturalism may formally dominate in Canada at century's close. In the now-familiar story of the mass roundup and detention(f.1) during the Second World War of Canadians of Japanese ancestry, a hitherto rarely studied group of men whose spiritual influence far exceeded their numbers helped to maintain a Buddhist foothold in Canada. At a time, decades before Canadian preoccupation with human rights and multiculturalism, when accidents of birth and race often shaped government policies, ministers of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism from Japan were among the more than 23,000 persons forcibly removed from their homes in British Columbia. References to Buddhism and to its Canadian practitioners occur in the literature of the Japanese in Canada, but there is little in the way of a sustained discussion of Jodo Shinshu or of the government's treatment of it during the Second World War.(f.2) To correct the oversight, this paper describes how the Canadian government approached the faith and its leaders between the Japanese... |
| ISSN | 00083496 (P); 19138253 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 361 |
| 建檔日期 | 1996.04.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.01.19 |
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