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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Main Author Hoang, Chung Van (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesBoundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies,
Subjects
Social sciences.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology > Asia.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319585000
ISSN2214-5281
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58500-0
Physical DescriptionIX, 169 p. 22 illus. online resource.

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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.

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