This volume looks at the intersection of race and religion in the United States before, during, and after World War II, when Nisei (second-generation) Japanese American Jodo Shinshu (or Shin) Buddhists reacted to the trauma of racial and religious discrimination. The book offers not only an engaging account of Buddhism's transmission but also a reflective, scholarly understanding of how Japanese culture was able to remain authentic to itself while opening out and being assimilated into the wider culture.