April 21, 2011: Michihiro Ama presents 'Immigrants to the Pure Land'

Thursday, April 21, 5-7 p.m.
UAA Campus Bookstore

Michihiro Ama's new book is called "Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941." In it, his "investigation of the early period of Jodo Shinshu in Hawaii and the United States sets a new standard for investigating the processes of religious acculturation and a radically new way of thinking about these processes."

At this event, Michihiro Ama examines the concept of acculturation, a dual process of both "Japanization" and "Americanization." Michihiro Ama currently teaches at UAA in the Department of Languages. Everyone is invited to attend this free event. Free parking is available.

For more information contact Rachel Epstein at 786-4782, anre@uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore or visit the UAA Campus Bookstore website.