Japanese Buddhism-its imprint on a California landscape

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 13: 49-53

Notes

Of the many dynamic forces operating to bring about modification or transformation of an existing cultural landscape, one of the most interesting and important is that of man's religions. Although it is sometimes difficult to separate the religious component from ethnic, social or economic factors in our urbanized and secular Western society, it can be accomplished with a moderate amount of effort if one knows what to look for and can understand what he sees. The most obvious religious elements, such as churches, great monuments and other sacred places, may stand out even to the untutored eye, but these are marks of the "outer face" of an organized, institutionalized religion. It can, perhaps, be more rewarding to discover visible manifestations of the religious intensity of the individual member of the faith under study. In this investigation, the question is: Have the Japanese Buddhists in the United States managed to produce any imprint on the cultural landscape that can be identified as a religious one?

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