History and Philosophy of Caodaism

History and Philosophy of Caodaism

Author: Gabriel Gobron

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1434462846

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Dao Cao Dai (Caodaism in English) is the third largest religion in Viet Nam (after Buddhism and Roman Catholicism). "Cao" means "high"; "Dai" means "palace." Caodai refers to the supreme palace where God reigns. The word is also used as God's symbolic name.


Caodai Spiritism

Caodai Spiritism

Author: Oliver

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9004378529

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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.


The Divine Eye and the Diaspora

The Divine Eye and the Diaspora

Author: Janet Alison Hoskins

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2015-02-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0824854799

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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.


Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous

Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous

Author: Christopher Hartney

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 900432898X

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This volume significantly advances the academic debate surrounding the taxonomy and the categorisation of ‘indigenous religion’. Developing approaches from leading scholars in the field, this edited volume provides the space for established and rising voices to discuss the highly problematic topic of how indigenous 'religion' can be defined and conceptualised. Constructing the Indigenous highlights the central issues in the debate between those supporting and refining current academic frameworks and those who would argue that present thinking remains too dependant on misunderstandings that arise from definitions of religion that are too inflexible, and from problems caused by the World Religion paradigm. This book will prove essential reading for those that wish to engage with contemporary discussions regarding the definitions of religion and their relations to the indigenous category. Contributors are: Zoe Alderton, Steve Bevis, James L. Cox, Christopher Hartney, Graham Harvey, Milad Milani, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Daniel J. Tower, Garry W. Trompf, and Jack Tsonis.


The History of Terrorism

The History of Terrorism

Author: Gérard Chaliand

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-08-23

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0520292502

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First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.


Fishers, Monks and Cadres

Fishers, Monks and Cadres

Author: Edyta Roszko

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0824890558

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This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors—even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal people and their navigation between competing forces over the decades of massive change since their incorporation into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975. The sea, however, plays a major role in this study as does the location: a once-peripheral area now at the center of a global struggle for sovereignty, influence and control in the South China Sea. The coastal fishing communities at the heart of this study are peripheral not so much because of geographical remoteness as their presumed social “awkwardness”; they only partially fit into the social imaginary of Vietnam’s territory and nation. The state thus tries to incorporate them through various cultural agendas while religious reformers seek to purify their religious practices. Yet, recently, these communities have also come to be seen as guardians of an ancient fishing culture, important in Vietnam’s resistance to Chinese claims over the South China Sea. The fishers have responded to their situation with a blend of conformity, co-option and subtle indiscipline. A complex, triadic relationship is at play here. Within it are various shifting binaries—for example, secular/religious, fishers/farmers, local ritual/Buddhist doctrine, and so forth—and different protagonists (state officials, religious figures, fishermen and women) who construct, enact, and deconstruct these relations in shifting alliances and changing contexts. Fishers, Monks and Cadres is a significant new work. Its vivid portrait of local beliefs and practices makes a powerful argument for looking beyond monolithic religious traditions. Its triadic analysis and subtle use of binaries offer startlingly fresh ways to view Vietnamese society and local political power. The book demonstrates Vietnam is more than urban and agrarian society in the Red River Basin and Mekong Delta. Finally, the author builds on intensive, long-term research to portray a region at the forefront of geopolitical struggle, offering insights that will be fascinating and revealing to a much broader readership.


Caodaism

Caodaism

Author: Serguei A. Blagov

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781590331507

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Contents: Preface; Ideological and Historical Roots; Emergence of Caodaism; Caodaism Doctrine and Canon; Caodaism Spiritism and Millenarism; Caodaist Hierarchy and Rituals; Caodaism:1927-1930; Caodaism: 1930-1940; Foreign Mission; Caodaism: 1940-1955; Caodaism: 1955-1975; Tay Ninh Church; Caodaist Sectarianism; Caodaism in Post-1975 Vietnam; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.


Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production

Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production

Author: Carole Cusack

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 821

ISBN-13: 9004221875

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This volume fills a lacuna in the academic assessment of new religions by investigating their cultural products (such as music, architecture, food et cetera). Contributions explore the manifold ways in which new religions have contributed to humanity’s creative output.