This vol. was prepared by the Chaplain Corps Planning Group of the U.S. Navy. It is one of a series of materials produced in a systematic effort in intercultural attitude improvement which in Southeast Asia involves an understanding of the indigenous religions & cultural value systems. A naval chaplain was assigned to make an in-country study of the beliefs, customs, religious practices & value system of Vietnam. Contents: Vietnamese Taoism; Confucianism in Vietnam; Hinduism in Vietnam; Islam; Roman Catholicism in South Vietnam; Protestantism in South Vietnam; Cao Dai; Phat Giao Hoa Hao; Religion in Everyday Life; Bibliography; Foreign Voluntary Agencies Operating in Vietnam with Resident Rep.; & Guidelines for Understanding. Illustrations.

This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin Mary among the Catholics and the Mother Goddess among the Caodaists. Visual culture and institutional structures are examined within both communities. Thien-Huong Ninh invites a critical re-thinking of how race, gender, and religion are proxies for understanding, theorizing, and addressing social inequalities within global contexts.