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New religions and state's response to religious diversification in contemporary Vietnam : tensions from the reinvention of the sacred /

This book approaches newly emerging religious groups through the interplay between religious and non-religious spheres and in the context of religious diversification in post-Renovation Vietnam. It considers the new religious groups as a part of religious reconfiguration in contemporary Vietnam caus...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoang, Chung Van (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Series:Boundaries of religious freedom ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Competing religious worldviews of the post-renovation Vietnam
  • 2. Modernity and religious reconfiguration: a Vietnamese perspective
  • 3. Encountering the uninvited the state, the established religions and attempts to shape NRMS
  • 4. Revitalising the legacy of a local sage: the school of teaching goodness
  • 5. A "spiritual revolution" for national salvation: the way of the jade Buddha
  • 6. An attempt to reconfigure Buddhism: the great mother's field of esp
  • 7. The reinvention and reconfiguration of NRMS
  • 8. Conclusion.