Caodai Spiritism
Title | Caodai Spiritism PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2018-11-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004378529 |
Preliminary Material /Victor L. Oliver -- Préface /Victor L. Oliver -- Acknowledgments /Victor L. Oliver -- Introduction /Victor L. Oliver -- The Historical Roots of Caodaism /Victor L. Oliver -- The Establishment of Caodaism /Victor L. Oliver -- Tay Ninh and The Chieu Minh Tam Thanh /Victor L. Oliver -- The Development of Caodai Sectarianism /Victor L. Oliver -- Attempts at Reunification /Victor L. Oliver -- Conclusion /Victor L. Oliver -- Appendix I /Victor L. Oliver -- Bibliography /Victor L. Oliver.
A Brief Introduction to Caodaism
Title | A Brief Introduction to Caodaism PDF eBook |
Author | Tuy Ngoc Trinh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781630688134 |
Vietnamese-American Catholics
Title | Vietnamese-American Catholics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter C. Phan |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780809143528 |
"With the first book in this new series from Paulist Press, Fr. Peter C. Phan presents the history of Christianity in Vietnam, the conditions of Vietnamese Catholics in America, the challenges facing Vietnamese-American Catholics today, and suggestions on how to meet them."--BOOK JACKET.
Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements
Title | Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements PDF eBook |
Author | Lukas Pokorny |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 634 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004362975 |
* This Handbook has won the ICAS Edited Volume Accolade 2019. Brill warmly congratulates editors Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter and their authors with this award. * A vibrant cauldron of new religious developments, East Asia (China/Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam) presents a fascinating arena of related research for scholars across disciplines. Edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter, the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements provides the first comprehensive and reliable guide to explore the vast East Asian new religious panorama. Penned by leading scholars in the field, the assembled contributions render the Handbook an invaluable resource for those interested in the crucial new religious actors and trajectories of the region.
The Divine Eye and the Diaspora
Title | The Divine Eye and the Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Alison Hoskins |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2015-02-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0824854799 |
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 four million followers. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, its “outrageous syncretism” incorporates Chinese, Buddhist, and Western religions as well as world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne d’Arc, Vladimir Lenin, and (in the USA) Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The book looks at the connections between “the age of revelations” (1925-1934) in French Indochina and the “age of diaspora” (1975-present) when many Caodai leaders and followers went into exile. Structured in paired biographies to trace relations between masters and disciples, now separated by oceans, it focuses on five members of the founding generation and their followers or descendants in California, showing the continuing obligation to honor those who forged the initial vision to “bring the gods of the East and West together.” Diasporic congregations in California have interacted with New Age ideas and stereotypes of a “Walt Disney fantasia of the East,” at the same time that temples in Vietnam have re-opened their doors after decades of severe restrictions. Caodaism forces us to reconsider how anthropologists study religious mixtures in postcolonial settings. Its dynamics challenge the unconscious Eurocentrism of our notions of how religions are bounded and conceptualized.
Hierarchy
Title | Hierarchy PDF eBook |
Author | Knut M. Rio |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1845458834 |
Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middle East they challenge some current conceptions of hierarchical formations and reassess former debates - of post-colonial and neo-colonial agendas, ideas of "democratization" and "globalization," and expanding market economies - both with regard to new theoretical issues and the new world situation.
Animism in Southeast Asia
Title | Animism in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Kaj Arhem |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317336623 |
Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations. Based on original fieldwork, this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon – its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Critically engaging with the current standard notion of animism, based on hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies in other regions, it examines the roles of life forces, souls and spirits in local cosmologies and indigenous religion. It proposes an expansion of the concept to societies featuring mixed farming, sacrifice and hierarchy and explores the question of how non-human agents are created through acts of attention and communication, touching upon the relationship between animist ontologies, world religion, and the state. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious ethnographic research, the book is a significant contribution to anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of animism in the humanities and social sciences.