Working Toward a "Pacific Era": the Transnational Peace Movement of Jodo Shinshu Youth Groups

我正在研究一本专著，内容是战前日本和海外日本侨民的Jodo Shinshu青年团体的领导人和成员如何理解他们的国家和宗派身份与他们国家的帝国主义和军国主义，以及像普世主义和世界和平这样的普世目标。为了这个项目，我收集了数十份原始材料，包括口述历史访谈、存档期刊的照片，以及日本、夏威夷、加利福尼亚州和不列颠哥伦比亚省的Jodo Shinshu组织的出版物。我在亚洲研究协会年会(2018年3月)和九州大学(2019年4月)上展示了我的一些初步研究成果。九州的演讲是一篇题为《日本、英国和美国帝国的民族民族主义和佛教青年团体，19世纪80-30年代》的文章的草稿，这篇文章已被即将出版的《全球佛教杂志》(有待审阅)接受。我将在南赞宗教文化研究所做另一次研究报告，这将是最终专著的一个章节。在美国宗教学会的年度会议上(2018年11月，我在会上介绍了一个相关主题)，我与一位学术出版商交谈，他有兴趣在手稿完成后对全文进行审查。

I am researching a monograph about how the leaders and members of Jodo Shinshu youth groups in pre-war Japan and the Japanese diaspora made sense of their national and sectarian identities in relation to their nations’ imperialism and militarism, as well as universalist goals like ecumenicism and world peace. For this project, I have collected dozens of primary materials, including oral history interviews, photographs of archived periodicals, and publications by various Jodo Shinshu organizations in Japan, Hawaii, California, and British Columbia.I presented some initial results of my research at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (in March 2018) and at Kyushu University (in April 2019). The Kyushu presentation was a draft of an article, titled “Ethnonationalism and Buddhist Youth Groups in the Japanese, British, and American Empires, 1880s-1930s,” that has been accepted for an upcoming special issue of Journal of Global Buddhism (pending review). I will give another research presentation at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, which will be a chapter in the final monograph. At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (in November 2018, where I presented on a related subject), I spoke with an academic publisher who is interested in reviewing the full manuscript when it is complete.