In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity to which that community is able to create a new civil religion around. The Japanese American experience during World War II was the catalyst to a new form of civil religion within the United States of America. ... The most important piece of legislation for her argument is Executive Order 9066 because without that order there would have never been Japanese American internment in the west coast. ... The expansive central hall allows for large-s...

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