The Divine Eye and the Diaspora : : Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism / / Janet Alison Hoskins.
What is the relationship between syncretism and diaspora? Caodaism is a large but almost unknown new religion that provides answers to this question. Born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, it is now reshaping the goals of its...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 8 color and 17 black & white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: "Outrageous Syncretism"?
- Chapter 1. Conversations with Divinities
- Chapter 2. A Spirit Medium as Nationalist Leader
- Chapter 3. The Spiritual Sons of Victor Hugo
- Chapter 4. The Fall of Saigon and the Rise of the Diaspora
- Chapter 5. A "Caodaist in Black" Returns to Live in Vietnam
- Chapter 6. The Divine Eye on the Internet
- Chapter 7. A Religion in Diaspora, A Religion of Diaspora
- Notes
- References
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR