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

我正在研究一篇专著，内容是关于战前日本Jodo Shinshu青年团体的领导人和成员以及日本侨民如何在与他们国家的帝国主义和军国主义以及普世主义目标（如普世主义和世界和平）的关系中理解他们的民族和宗派身份。在这个项目中，我收集了几十个原始材料，包括口述历史访谈，存档期刊照片，以及日本、夏威夷、加利福尼亚和不列颠哥伦比亚省各种Jodo信书组织的出版物。我在2018年3月的亚洲研究协会年会上和2019年4月的九州大学年会上展示了我的一些初步研究成果。九州的报告是一篇文章的草稿，题为“19世纪80年代至30年代日本、英国和美国帝国的民族民族主义和佛教青年团体”，这篇文章已被《全球佛教杂志》（Journal of Global Buddhism）即将出版的特刊接受（待审）。我将在南山宗教文化研究所做另一个研究报告，这将是最后一本专著的一个章节。在美国宗教学会（American Academy of Religion）的年会上（2018年11月，我在会上做了一个相关主题的演讲），我与一位学术出版商进行了交谈，他有兴趣在完整的手稿完成后对其进行审查。

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.