Christianity, social justice, and the Japanese American incarceration during World War II
By: Anne M. Blankenship
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781469629223; 9781469629216; 9781469629193; 9781469629209
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Human rights; Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Christianity; Religion; Christianity and justice; Western; Japanese Americans; Social conditions; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; History; HISTORY
Description: This study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. Anne Blankenship shows how church leaders were forced to assess the ethics and pragmatism of fighting against or acquiescing to what they clearly perceived, even in the midst of a national crisis, as an unjust social system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 30, 2018).
Table of contents: title: The attack on Pearl Harbor & Executive Order 9066; title: The organization of Christian aid; title: Building churches behind barbed wire; title: Experiences of Christianity in the camps; title: The end of Japanese ethnic churches.