???Summer Session Speaking Tour: Puna Hongwanji

Please join us for the Hawaii Island District Summer Session Speaking Tour, with Dr. Scott Mitchell.  The topic of this presentation will be “Japanese American Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists built religious infrastructure in the modern Buddhism in the USA” and discuss the history of Jōdo Shinshū missionaries to the mainland US and their interactions with Western scholarship on Buddhism. I will discuss the ways in which these missionaries self-consciously promoted Buddhism outside the immigrant group, and how the contributions of Shin Buddhism have been neglected in scholarship on Buddhist modernism.

This will take place at Puna Hongwanji, on June 27th, from 2 PM. Please be advised that registration is required.