1. Japanese Americans and Civil Religion
In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. ... The article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion," contributes greatly to our understanding of race and religion in the United States of America because it discusses how a marginalized race within the United States used their experiences of internment to...
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