The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism 9780824854799
What is the relationship between syncretism and diaspora? Caodaism is a large but almost unknown new religion that provi
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Table of contents :
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
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
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- Janet Alison Hoskins
