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The divine eye and the diaspora : Vietnamese syncretism becomes transpacific Caodaism /

Caodaism is a new religion born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, now trying to reshape the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly syncretistic, it incorporates elements of Chinese, Buddhist, and Western...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoskins, Janet (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conversations with divinities: seance and the first disciples
  • A spirit medium as nationalist leader: charisma and anticolonialism
  • The spiritual sons of Victor Hugo: from seance to battlefield
  • The fall of Saigon and the rise of the diaspora
  • A "Caodaist in black" returns to live in Vietnam
  • The divine eye on the Internet
  • A religion in diaspora, a religion of diaspora.